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Selected Poems
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. No comparable edition at this...more
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
July 1st 1990
by Dover Publications
(first published 1890)
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oh Emily..
Hasn't your heart ever been truly broken? Have you ever been in love with someone who was repulsed by you... maybe someone who even called you a psycho? Have you ever been emotionally sucker-punched or dropped-kicked? ..I guess not..
Darling, your verses...
Why would I want to read 75 pages of poetry about nature, or your interpretation of "life"? You wasted what could've possibly been a dramatic firey intense talent you obviously possess with words of...more
Hasn't your heart ever been truly broken? Have you ever been in love with someone who was repulsed by you... maybe someone who even called you a psycho? Have you ever been emotionally sucker-punched or dropped-kicked? ..I guess not..
Darling, your verses...
Why would I want to read 75 pages of poetry about nature, or your interpretation of "life"? You wasted what could've possibly been a dramatic firey intense talent you obviously possess with words of...more
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My first reading of Dickinson's poetry and I LOVED them. This collection includes over 100 of her poetry obviously the best. At first glance the book and poems seemed so simple and easy to read so I picked it up to read in my spare time (if I ever get any) but it ended up stealing the time I wanted to spend on other books. There is a rich suggestiveness in her poems which generates a range of meanings, and they make you stop and think because every poem seems has more than one meaning.
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Isn't interesting how the "poetry of old" tends toward rhyme - and I'm not only thinking of Dickinson here, but her contemporaries too: Charlotte Mew and Sara Teasdale. To some extent the rhyme and rhythm overtakes the poems and instead of actually looking at the words to see what the poem is saying, you're trying to sing along and move onto the next song. Having said that, Dickinson uses some beautiful images, e.g. turning raindrops into pearl necklaces (page 38) and the leaves that "...more
Don't laugh; she is a wonderful poet.
"Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin’s ecstasy
Among astonished boughs—
How many trips the Tortoise makes—
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, who lai...more
"Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps—
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!
Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin’s ecstasy
Among astonished boughs—
How many trips the Tortoise makes—
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!
Also, who lai...more
This time I want to interpret the peoms becuase I have never Interpreted the peoms in ELI classes. I haard that UTA litureture class does peom interpreting and anlalzing, so I want to try it.
Clock
A clock stopped not the matel's;
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the purppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
Aawe came on the trinket!
The figures hunched with pain,
into degreeless nonn.
I will not stir for doctors,
This ...more
Clock
A clock stopped not the matel's;
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the purppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
Aawe came on the trinket!
The figures hunched with pain,
into degreeless nonn.
I will not stir for doctors,
This ...more
This book is a book full of poems written by Emily. Her poems are sooo good; it speaks on love, love going away, betrayal, friendship, nature, hurt and soooo much more. This book was published after Emily's death. Her neice had found the pages and felt it was soooo good that it should be turned into another book and of course she had help with the oublishing and the editing of the book. One of my fav poems she did was "Hope-is the thing with feathers"(page 19).
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Dickinson always wrote her poems in eccentric way and on her own imaginative originality, use metaphors in her poems with a large of vocabularies to describe love, life, and nature. Some of her poems tried to examine the mysteries of life and death.
Death, death, and more death. That sums up how Emily Dickinson wrote her poems about. Occasionally she wrote about suffering and lonelyness. I can see how she came about writing these poems since she was a recluse. Dickinson did write poems with very descriptive language. One of her poems was about nature and it very detailed in how it is written. Also Dickinson's punctiation was very unique. She added dashes in places that did not seem logical and some words were capatialized throughout the poe...more
Despite her status as a preeminent American poet, Dickinson has always rather left me cold. Poetry's a personal thing, and Emmy's unnamed rhapsodies on death and flowers (not necessarily in that order) just don't do it for me. In the interest of fairness, however, I decided to give the selected poems a go - and in the end, wish I'd foregone. Innovative, yes. Stylistically intriguing, perhaps. (Personally I see similarities to Classical poetry, but whatever.) Moving? Not so much. I found a handfu...more
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People who like classic poetry
This book truely shows some of Emily Dickinson's best work. Its shows her feelings about life, death, nature, love, and time. Her poems make you think about the subjects. She also relates them to her life as if to make readers also have a text to self connection. Although her poems were left unpublished when she died she would've probably wanted the world to know about how she felt about life. She uses really strong and intellectual words. I believe that emily dickinson is one of the best poets ...more
I am just past halfway and I really just want to give up on this for two reasons.
1. I don't particularly like Dickinson's poetry. Her nonstandard grammar makes it difficult to understand what she's on about. Out of 100s of poems, so far I have liked four. And one of those was only because it evoked ancient Chinese erotic poetry, if it was poorly translated, but then it is hard to write about bees visiting flowers without doing so [added: being erotic, that is].
2. The book its...more
1. I don't particularly like Dickinson's poetry. Her nonstandard grammar makes it difficult to understand what she's on about. Out of 100s of poems, so far I have liked four. And one of those was only because it evoked ancient Chinese erotic poetry, if it was poorly translated, but then it is hard to write about bees visiting flowers without doing so [added: being erotic, that is].
2. The book its...more
Full disclaimer- I really can't properly review poetry. Mainly because I suck at scansion and meter. Language, I'm good with, but everything else...not so much.
That out of the way, I do quite like Dickinson. This is a fairly comprehensive collection, covering three years of writing (1890, 1891, and 1896), and grouped into her four most prevalent subjects. There's a definite change in the tone of her poems from the 1890 section to 1896, and with the majority of topics (particularly an...more
That out of the way, I do quite like Dickinson. This is a fairly comprehensive collection, covering three years of writing (1890, 1891, and 1896), and grouped into her four most prevalent subjects. There's a definite change in the tone of her poems from the 1890 section to 1896, and with the majority of topics (particularly an...more
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Un ovunque di argento
con corde di sabbia
a impedirgli di cancellare
la Traccia chiamata Terra.
1078
Il trambusto in una casa
è l'attività più solenne
che si svolga sulla terra
il mattino che segue la morte -
Si spazzano i cocci del cuore
con cura si ripone l'amore
che non vorremmo più usare
fino all'eternità.
1127
Morbido come un massacro di soli
trucidati dalle sciabole della notte.
1138
Un ragno cuciva la notte
senza luce
su un arco di bianco.
Se fosse gorgiera di dama
o sudario di gnomo
solo a se stesso diceva...more
Un ovunque di argento
con corde di sabbia
a impedirgli di cancellare
la Traccia chiamata Terra.
1078
Il trambusto in una casa
è l'attività più solenne
che si svolga sulla terra
il mattino che segue la morte -
Si spazzano i cocci del cuore
con cura si ripone l'amore
che non vorremmo più usare
fino all'eternità.
1127
Morbido come un massacro di soli
trucidati dalle sciabole della notte.
1138
Un ragno cuciva la notte
senza luce
su un arco di bianco.
Se fosse gorgiera di dama
o sudario di gnomo
solo a se stesso diceva...more
While I am not much into poetry, this was enjoyable. There are some lovely poems here, and a few that were quite moving. Also lots of lighter poems, particularly those that focused on nature. She does tend to focus on rather somber subjects, primarly death and the afterlife (subtitled "Time and Eternity" in the section headings), but I was still glad I read it.
What a lovely book! Some 46 poems by Dickinson are accompanied by 24 of Will Barnett's charcoal drawings, and preceded by a succinct introductory essay by New York Times Sunday Book Review author Christopher Benfey. There's also a very nice bibliographic paragraph at the end of Benfey's essay that anyone who might wish to know more about Dickinson's life, the era and sociocultural context in which she wrote, can use as a jumping off point. The World in a Frame is a short read, and one that yo...more
Tolerable for the genre, though it's a genre I personally find intolerable. While I know she was ahead of her time, by contemporary standards it's still hopelessly melodramatic, and it's really pushing it to call it to call her work pre-modernist in any meaningful sense on the strength of a bit of slant rhyme and odd syntax.
My foray with the selected poems was much more successful than my one with the complete poems. (Meaning: I was actually able to finish it!)
Overall there were more poems I didn't like then ones I liked. I'm sure she was brilliant, and all that, but... I just didn't feel the same connection with Emily's poems that I do with my favourite poets.
Overall there were more poems I didn't like then ones I liked. I'm sure she was brilliant, and all that, but... I just didn't feel the same connection with Emily's poems that I do with my favourite poets.
the pocket classic does violence to Dickinson. One can safely say that anyone providing a positive review of this is actively harming poetry with thoughtlessness. This symbolizes what kills writing, and has no resemblance to the author's poems. Shelve it under pulp or "recycle bin."
i found this book to be imspiring. i love poems by emily dickinson and i am so happy to own this book. i recomened this book to any one looking for good poems on almost any issue. this book is a book i can and will re read many many times.
My roommate also gave me this for my birthday. It's a really nice little volume of about 109 poems. Some of her best known poems are included in here, but also others that are just as good, if less studied. It's a cool little book.
I don't think I'm the only person who had Emily Dickenson "ruined" by the show Head of the Class... They revealed the terrible secret that most of her poems can be read to the tune "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
Great poems, absolutely LOVED them. I also found it interesting how her friends titled the poems, though I didn't always see why they chose what they did. All in all, great book, you can get it really cheap online.
I return to her poetry over and over again, always finding something new, discovering what I need, laughing or smiling, and ultimately, understanding myself a little more each time.
I didn't read all of them...who has? (There are over 1800.) But my students read 25 of them and I got all excited about Dickinson again. What an amazing poet.
Angela Alcorn
marked it as to-read
I just put this book as representation of poetry by Emily Dickenson. I read her works in both high school and college. I love her. She is one of my fave poets.
Actually, the first part of the book (here the poems are organized in topics such as Love or Life) was better than the second part. But in general I really enjoyed Emily Dickinson's poems. Although she was a woman who has not seen much of the world and with time she got on my nervous with all those poems ending with the word immortality, I had a great time with her and I think I'll learn some of my favourite poems by heart.
This book has something to tell you if you are interested in poetry...more
This book has something to tell you if you are interested in poetry...more
I didn't read every single poem, but the ones I did read, I loved. I love Emily Dickinson's work.
she was mentioned a lot in poisonwood bible by Ada the most interesting character.. so I want to read.
I remember some of the poems from high school and college, but others were new to me. Nice collection.
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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century.
Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the...more
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“She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.”
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And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.”
“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. ”
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