Emily Dickenson's poetry....BLECH!

[T-Shirt Ninja]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?

[themuzicman]

... said the T-shirt ninja... :doh:

[Sparko]

stupid trees!!

[Little Shepherd]

All of her poems can be sung to the tune or Amazing Grace or the Yellow Rose of Texas. That has to count for something.

[Philosophickle]

Not a fan of the ladies, eh?

[Manwë Súlimo]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?

Amen, amen, and amen.

[Moksha]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?

Is this actually a rant against the poetry or against the enforced studying?

Who do you consider a good poet?

[Rushing Jaws]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?## Ihave difficulty disconfusing her from Walt Whitman.

FWIW, she was on the syllabus as a set text in the UK - & probably still is. I don't think she is that good.

[shadowmaster]

Ninjas read poetry?
:doh:

[Moksha]

## Ihave difficulty disconfusing her from Walt Whitman.

FWIW, she was on the syllabus as a set text in the UK - & probably still is. I don't think she is that good.

She's the one in the dress.

:lol:

[mlfoley]

Hey now. I am from Amherst, MA. Them's fightin' words.

[jo7241974]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?

Can you count the ways you hate her poetry?

Totally off topic, but it made me think of a required reading if you got a certain teacher in 7th grade. The book was Antigone. I must confess I thought the class taught by that teacher must be a Philosophy class based on the title of the book. Problem was, I had never heard of the book before, and when I saw the title I thought it was pronounced "anti-gone"......quite obviously a deep thinkers book! hahahahaha!!!

[Nightingale]

I don't like Dickinson either but I LOVE Elizabeth Barrett Browning!!

[Nightingale]

I have to post this:

http://www.cabanonpress.com/News/news-5.ED.htm

[Taran Wanderer]

I will proudly say this...

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Emily Dickenson's poetry.

Seriously, who decided to take the poetry written by a crazy lady who lived all by herself in the woods and who had no intention to publish what she wrote and turn it into normal curriculum for people to study on an academic level? Plus the fact that her poetry is...well, just plain bad.

Anyone feel the same way?
I hate poetry in general because I don't like straining my brain to interpret it, after which I usually don't feel any more certain about the meaning than I did to begin with, but I like Emily Dickenson because she's so easy to read. But I don't know how to evaluate poetry, so what would you say is bad about it? Can you give an example?

[Philosophickle]

I hate poetry in general because I don't like straining my brain to interpret it, after which I usually don't feel any more certain about the meaning than I did to begin with, but I like Emily Dickenson because she's so easy to read. But I don't know how to evaluate poetry, so what would you say is bad about it? Can you give an example?

I'm in the same boat. I don't have the right kind of brain to be able to appreciate the differences between bad and good poetry. I try to read the classic works of poetry, but most of it just zooms right past without offering any hint as to the meaning of that particular collection of words. Dickinson, on the other hand, seems to be easier for me to handle. Some of it even appears to be philosophically rich:

A color stand abroad

On solitary hills

That science cannot overtake,

But human nature feels.

(See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap))

[NeilUnreal]

I love poetry, always have, probably always will.

Maybe you have to get started early on poetry. My parents got me started. We had a big book of family poems when I was a child (it's still at my mom's house) and my parents used to encourage me to memorize and recite poetry from it.

Some of Dickinson's stuff can be a bit "goopy" taken at length. But there are some real gems of lines and couplets there. I'm thinking of things like:

"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;"

"Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell."

Perhaps she should have stuck to haiku.

-Neil

p.s. Garrison Keillor has a hillarious monologue about Emily Dickinson's ghost ordering pizza. I don't know where it can be found, but it's well worth listening to if you can find it.

[Carrikature]

Perhaps she should have stuck to haiku.



Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator. (http://typetees.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_Are_Easy_But_Sometimes_They_Don_t_Make_Sense_Refrigerator)



I seem to remember liking Emily Dickinson, but it's been years since I've read poetry. We used to have to memorize it in school, though. My favorite was always this one:

Where the Sidewalk Ends

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

Shel Silverstein