Special K

Dickinson

Talk about your lyrical poetry! Every line of Emily Dickinson's poems just bounces and flows with perfect rythmn.

I enjoy Dickinson's poetry because it isn't masked in too much symbolism and obscure references. It still has meaning, yet it is easy to find.

Although short, I enjoyed her IV poem- Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower? Flowers are a beautiful and meaningful item for Dickinson, possibly because she was a bit of a recluse. They were a thing of beauty from the outside world she could enjoy. They encompass a world all their own, hence her unwillingness to lend one out for very long.

Another poem, again short, I enjoyed was XVII- I never saw a moor. While Dickinson may not know about moors and the see, what heaven looks like or talked to God, she still knows about such items through her reading and education. Just because one hasn't explored something first hand doesn't mean that he or she does not understand it. In her time, Dickinson could read about things outside her world and now we can do even more with the internet and television. Nothing is out of our reach.