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03-09-2021, 10:51 AM
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Conny and others, if you want to know what she read, look here. If you can afford it or it's at a local library. Ms Browning and the Metaphysical poets, among many others.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog....=9780674732087
There's a search feature for finding a library near you.
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03-09-2021, 12:03 PM
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Nice one, Conny. There are many. And thank you, Sarah-Jane. One of the things I love most about the quatrain is the phrase "neighborhoods of pause," a juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated concepts that I find thrilling. She used this trick at least two other times with "the suburbs of a secret" and "acres of perhaps," yet more proof, if proof were needed, of her many gifts as a poet.
As somebody once said about Robert Oppenheimer, Dickinson read everything and remembered what she read.
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03-09-2021, 12:35 PM
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Here's another famous quatrain that is perfect to the last syllable:
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
In "Our Secret Discipline," her study of Yeats, Helen Vendler did an excellent job of examining the technical aspects of these four lines.
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03-09-2021, 02:22 PM
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I am curious as to what in the world would motivate someone to continue to bastardize the greatest American poet? I simply can't wrap my head around it. What is gained by diminishing her work into soup? Does anyone have the answer to that? That is the real question.
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03-09-2021, 02:52 PM
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Quote:
There is no better quatrain in the language.
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Let's not go overboard.
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03-09-2021, 03:07 PM
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Nota bene: Vendler does not gut Dickinson's poems in her study. Had you noticed that, Tim? Someone's been brainwashed to think editing her work at a whim is appropriate.
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03-09-2021, 03:11 PM
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He hasn't been brainwashed; it's a consciously formed and (within the system of his general worldview) reasonably held view.
Of course, that's a fatal indictment of said worldview, but let's not sling unfounded insults.
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03-09-2021, 03:13 PM
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Fortunately, as is always the case, the world has moved on from the silly 19th-century urge to turn ED into your neighborhood Rotarian-style poet.
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03-09-2021, 04:56 PM
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Hypersensitivity and intolerance about some alternative visual presentations using commata or semi-cola instead of dashes are what some readers may have, but not something the poetess would probably have.
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03-09-2021, 05:10 PM
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Do you have any evidence for this assertion?
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