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Comments about Emily Dickinson
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John Lavelle
(12/12/2011 7:58:00 PM)
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Dickinson is the greatest of all American poets and, along with Shakespeare, among the greatest in the English language. Through her original, unconventional use of diction, rhyme, and punctuation, she transmits Morse code-like messages to the soul. Those with ears to hear, let them hear. Let the others continue condemning her poetry as incoherent babble. 'Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye.'
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Bonnie Shipman
(7/24/2011 7:21:00 PM)
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Possibly one of my favorite poets. She does write some weird or slightly dark poetry, but a lot of her poems say things in a way which is at once memorable, concise and curiously true. I'd love to write more like her.
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Juan Olivarez
(4/28/2011 10:58:00 AM)
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The only injury to american poetry is by that imbecile Lawrence Beck.
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Kenneth Belknap
(4/1/2011 10:34:00 PM)
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@SamIam you threw out the illiterate nitwit so I'm not going to be too worried about being insulting. The dashes were hers, there are very good fascimiles of her handwritten poems available. They are considered to be a device used to fracture the language by many, or as an idiosyncracy by others... like perhaps when she was trying to think of the next word she would make a dash. Either way since she did not publish while she was alive the truest any 'illiterate nitwit' transcribing her poems can be is to include everything she wrote, dashes and all. You are not the only one to make ignorant comments about her, but yours was on the top so it got the response.
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Sam Iam
(2/19/2011 10:00:00 PM)
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While I love Emily Dickinson, I'm quite certain she was intelligent enough to know not to punctuate her poetry with dashes. What illiterate nitwit transcribed this stuff?
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Cassandra Wylie
(8/31/2010 4:36:00 PM)
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Then, Lawrence, you insensitive imbecile, don't read it.
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Lawrence Beck
(8/1/2010 7:46:00 AM)
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Emily Dickinson was insane. Her 'poetry' is incoherent babble. Generations of gullible readers, mistaking incoherence for profundity, have celebrated dear Emily, and emulated her. In doing so, they have gravely injured American poetry.
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Amy Cavanaugh
(2/6/2010 2:38:00 PM)
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I love her Originality.. ;) Her dashes and capitalization are great!
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fleur de lys
(7/26/2009 5:04:00 PM)
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She is like a vestal virgin with devotional ties to her poetry.
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I should not dare to leave my frien
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I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because—because if he should die
While I was gone—and I—too late—
Should reach the Heart that wanted me—
If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted—hunted so—to see—
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