It’s on Sunday the 10th. Ms. Dickinson wrote:
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.
She also wrote:
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Yay! Thanks for the thread!
In choir, we sang a song, and the lyrics were the words to her poem, “I never saw a moor”
(I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.)
It was an absolutely beautiful song, and it was really fun to sing!
I feel kind of sorry for her. Wasn’t she the uber-reclusive one? But i guess it helped her write better poetry.
Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet!! I read one of her works out of Final Harvest for a poetry night in October!
Yes, she was the reclusive one.
In In honor of the occasion I raided my bookshelf and found an anthology with some Dickonson in it. Here’s one of the ones I found:
The morns are meeker than they were –
The nuts are getting brown –
The berry’s cheek is plumper –
The Rose is out of town
The Maple wears a gayer scarf –
The feild a scarlet gown –
Lest I should be old fashioned
I’ll put a trinket on.
Emily Dickonson Rocks. My favorite poem:
A word is dead
When it is said
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
She’s cool. She only published a few poems before she died, aparently, but had hundreds more in her house. Good writer.
She’s one of my favorite poets. Actually, now that I think about it, I think she is my favorite!
I love this poem she wrote:
THERE is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Here’s something I just found on the internet and liked:
This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,–
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!
I have some others. I’ll post them tomorrow.
I like her work. I haven’t read much of it though.
9-Try Final Harvest-it’s the poems that were collected from her house after she died.
I love her peom ‘ I’m Nobody.’
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one’s name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
I like Emily Dickinson, because, according to my Poetry teacher, she’s the only poet who did not, ever, in a single one of her poems, use obscenities, etc.
12- YES! I love it. It’s my theme poem.
I like her use of imagery.
12. I was going to say that! “I’m Nobody” Is my favorite Emily Dickinson poem, too.
This probably isn’t the most liked thread. She still rocks.
(8) I love that poem. One of my favorites of hers.
Happy Birthdat indeed! One of my favorite poets, to be sure.
happy birthday!