(Mis)Reading Emily Dickinson
Jejak Panda Hello.. Selamat Datang Kembali Di Blog Kesayangan Anda bandar judi ceme The first time I read Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun†was in a graduate course. Previous to that, I did not enjoy Dickinson’s poetry. But I had mostly only read and taught poems like “A narrow fellow in the grass†or “I’m Nobody! Who are you?†These and poems like them, at least the way they were taught to me, seemed shallow and sentimental. They were the kinds of poems that ended up on refrigerator magnets, classroom posters, and Hallmark cards. But that class began to change my attitude toward Dickinson, which was further altered after I read Brenda Wineapple’s White Heat , which chronicles Dickinson’s semi-erotic epistolary relationship with the writer and editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson. If you haven’t read it, do. I think even Dickinson fans will never think of her the same way again. In ...