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Summary: It's really a crime...
Review: ...how Dickinson is still remembered today. There have been many bad poets in the world's history; Dickinson was about the worst. Buried in smug contempt and suffused with undeserved egotism, Dickinson's poems show not even the most minimal grasp of the English language. How so many people mistake Dickinson's muffled ignorance for thought is beyond me.
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Summary: Delightfully primitive
Review: a bold book with a hint of sophistication but lacking in pretension. I don't particularly care for the poetry of this excessivly repetitios. It is imparative that the reader have a uniwue point of view to understand her literature.
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Summary: I've had this book for 10 years now...
Review: And I still turn to it all the time. It is well-worn and well-read. There are newer editions of Dickinson's poetry, but this relatively compact book feels like an old friend. The use of language and phrasing is divine - so to speak. *smile* I cannot recommend this work enough.Meeting by Accident, We hovered by design - As often as a Century An error so divine Is ratified by Destiny, But Destiny is old And economical of Bliss As Midas is of Gold -
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Summary: Brilliant..
Review: As a few have stated already, a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems appear simple on the surface. Don't let the simplicity or brevity fool you, boiling underneath the metaphors of Dickinson's poems are some of the most beautiful visions I've ever read. Intelligent, thoughtful..haunting are all words I'd use to describe her poems. She has quickly vaulted to the top of the list of my favorite poets along with William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe. And speaking of her poems, there are plenty. All of them in fact, in chronological order allowing the reader to see the progession in her poems. This is a great book at a great price to be able to own all she has written. Since her poems have no titles, there are two invaluable features included at the back to help aid the search for the desired poem. One is an alphabetical subject index, with words and lines linked to poems with which they belong. The other index includes the first lines of all 1775 poems. An excellent all around souce for all your Emily Dickinson needs. Enjoy.
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Summary: the starkest Madness-
Review: Assent-and you are Sane- Demure- you're straightway dangerous- And handled with a Chain- E. Dickinson I like the way she manipulates language...how everything is more than it seems, and I love her slashes and dashes. Slash and Dash.
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Summary: The inspiration to boost my life
Review: Emily Dickenson has made my life actually worth while. Everytime I hear one of her magnifesent poems I feel life surge through me. My life is a bit of a downer, I'm in depression a lot. Her poems have helped me. I am a poet myelf, and a writer so its inspirational to hear her poetry. I hate to hear people say she's a terrible poet because its not true! Her passed was a bit sad, to my opinion, but she lived to be the greatest poet I will ever know! I don't know any other way to explain her great poetry, its almost like trying to tell why you like shakespears plays. They are just so much. If you want to feel true inspiration, I recemend Emily Dickenson. Anyone who doesn't like Emily Dickenson or disses her doesn't know poetry and I pitty them.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Emily Dickinson is an poet that has poems that are usually taken the wrong way. This book is an excellent way for people to understand the meaning of the poetry by Emily Dickinson. I personally enjoy poetry, and I especially think that Emily Dickinson is a very profound poet. She is one of my favorites. This book is an excellent way to start out in poetry if you have not paid any attention to poetry before. It is also an EXCELLENT way for people who are poetry lovers to expand your horizon.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: Emily Dickinson is easily my favorite poet. It was unfortunate that she was essentially undiscovered during her lifetime. This may remind us of one of her poems: ----- 441 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 ----- However, I think this poem is a more likely biography and more personal poem: ----- 404 How many Flowers fail in Wood --
Or perish from the Hill --
Without the privilege to know
That they are Beautiful -- How many cast a nameless Pod
Upon the nearest Breeze --
Unconscious of the Scarlet Freight --
It bear to Other Eyes -- ----- There are 1775 poems in all, but the following poem is my favorite. It is also on display in her house in Amherst (MA) in various renditions. Make sure to visit there if you are ever in the area. ----- 67 Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory As he defeated -- dying --
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear! ----- There are so many fantastic poems that I wish I could list them all. I did type them all (!) in once for my personal use and that has been of great benefit. However, I still keep this book that is marked with my own notes. A real treasure.
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Summary: The best we have -Read her and be enriched
Review: Emily Dickinson is one of the greats of world poetry. A language, a style , a world of her own. She writes memorable lines slanted to the heft of her own cathedral tunes. Success counted sweetest on her dying ear was distant sounds of triumph burst agonized and clear. She loved to lick the valleys up in skies of molten blue .She died twice before her death, and yet remained to see if immortality would reveal another event awesome as these. Intoxication was the going of an inland soul to sea, past the houses past the headlands into deep Eternity .
She gave us lines which live in our minds, and come back to us time and time again, rhymes off - rhymes too which take flight as poems of broken wings.
She enriches our life. She exalts us.
Read her and be enriched, the fragrant longing of a spinster's kiss.
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Summary: One of the Best Poets Ever!!
Review: Emily Dickinson's poetry is truly fantastic!! She was able to show us that poetry doesn't have to be long and complicated to be beautiful. She shows how brevity and beauty can merge together to become one. Her poems also talk about universal emotions such as love, loss of love, heartbreak, death and other themes that concern us still today. If I could, I would give this collection ten stars!!!
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