Whitman and Dickinson

I just started the Dickinson TV Show. I do not know how I feel about this! The best part I think is Emily and Sue’s relationship. I do not understand the bumble bee that keeps appearing and talking to her,

Hi everyone! I don’t know if any of you are in to Beat Generation literature, but I happened to be perusing through some material by Allen Ginsberg this evening, and I stumbled across his poem “A Supermarket in California,” where

For this conversation starter I would like to focus on the poem, ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’ (1263) as this poem stood out to me particularly for the poignancy of the first line. The poem starts by

I had some questions about this poem we read for today’s class, maybe you could help me figure it out? Poem 1356: A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown

This is my April 1st work. Here are the two poems I’m comparing. Dickinson 466:I dwell in Possibility –A fairer House than Prose –More numerous of Windows –Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars –Impregnable of eye

I’d like to first note how astonished I am with how connected Emily Dickinson seems to be with the animal aspect of nature in a handful of poems assigned for April 1st’s class. One that fascinated me was poem 656

In poem 528 “Tis not that Dying hurts us so –” (240) and poem 552 “There is a Languor of the Life” (250), Dickinson addresses feelings of grief. However, poem 552 addresses the “…Languor of the Life /” that comes