Indian Pipe is a white flower that has a bent flower head. It was a favorite of Emily’s. Carlo was her beloved big, black dog. She supposedly became more of a recluse as she aged - spent hours in her room.
This is linked with "Poets and Storytellers United - Friday Writings #75"
http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/. This blogger is doing “The Dickinson Blog Project” reading and commenting all 1789 poems
http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-birds-begun-at-four-oclock.html (where I got the reference)
https://www.amazon.com/Gorgeous-Nothings-Emily-Dickinsons-Envelope/dp/081122175X
Book - The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/behind-the-new-gloriously-queer-emily-dickinson-movie.html. VERY interesting article - I was intrigued how science detected the erased parts of Emily’s letters to Susan. “… But in the process of attempting to read copies of every letter Emily had written, Smith got distracted. “I start coming across things like seven lines erased, half of the page cut out, words erased,” she tells me. “And I’m like, What in the world is this? And so I asked to go see the manuscripts at Amherst College — that’s where most of the mutilated manuscripts are.” Once there, new spectrographic technology made it possible for Smith to recapture what had been censored on the pages and to quickly realize that the lines being erased were “these affectionate expressions about her sister-in-law, Susan.”
Two movies wildly different from each other; A Quiet Passion and Wild Nights with Emily
Mutilations http://archive.emilydickinson.org/mutilation/mintro.html
9 comments:
That i/s a heavy project, reading and writing comments on all 1789 poems.
Guess you work like a factory worker, a set routine, perhaps fill in the blanks.
or check answers on prepared virtual forms. Something AI never could do.
I like the tempo here, five minutes on the 'line'. If Emily could see all this now.
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Lovely! And I enjoyed your back story too.
Now to look for the Wild Nights movie (seen and liked the other one).
Love the back and forth dialogue. I hope she comes to haunt me soon!
Emily is briefly brought to life so beautifully here under your gaze and pen.
Do you think it's possible that while being so obsessed with Higginson, Dickinson had lesbian tendencies as well?
This is so wonderful.. so much going on there - I do want now to read all the backstories.
Listen
With loneliness
With fullness
With loss
With Wonder - just beautiful!
I really enjoyed the exchange, and the details. I can see this happen, feel her doubts, delight in the fact that she always keeps going. I also really like the speaker's enthusiasm.
Thank you for all the notes . I understood the poem much better and enjoyed your dialogue very much. I am not familiar with Emily Dickinson's work . I would like to see those movies.
Absolutely gorgeous Margaret! Emily, a poet worthy of every ounce of praise she receives and will continue to receive as long as there are sensitive and introspective poets such as YOU! Loved the back and forth.
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