Posted by obsidian on August 14, 2010, at 8:34:44
In reply to Lives Like Loaded Guns, posted by sigismund on August 13, 2010, at 19:17:38
> Anyone interested in Emily Dickinson?
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> She's an appropriate subject for the psych board, isn't she?
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> I've been interested for a long time, but some of the poems are completely obscure to me, which fact was explained somewhat by this review.........
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> http://www.economist.com/node/16740445I like her work a lot. I am not surprised that she suffered from epilepsy.
the one I like the most....
We grow accustomed to the Dark
When light is put away
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her GoodbyeA MomentWe uncertain step
For newness of the night
Thenfit our Vision to the Dark
And meet the RoaderectAnd so of largerDarkness
Those Evenings of the Brain
When not a Moon disclose a sign
Or Starcome outwithinThe Bravestgrope a little
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead
But as they learn to seeEither the Darkness alters
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight
And Life steps almost straight.
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