Hi David,
I missed your intent completely and tentatively took the poem to be almost a dismissal of Emily's posthumous acclaim. My first thought was to respond that I would recuse myself from commenting because being one who had mentioned a couple times on the sphere the names of Shakespeare and Dickinson in the same breath, I held a bias. Your poem at first made me wonder whether UK poets tend to think she gets her reputation primarily because Americans need a little bit of cultural provenance on this side of the Atlantic. I am glad to see how wrong I would have been. It appears you actually want to point out that a poet away from the big cities and dependent on their own resources and imagination can do amazing things with words. To me, it is a small miracle that her work survived, and apparently did so despite her own self-imposed scrutiny.... This has been a lot of wind to say that yes, your poem may not be accomplishing what it set out to do.
All the best,
Jim
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