Emily Dickenson opens up with a simile. The Architect counters with a Horn-clause.
Fight!
(nods to heathansson)
Emily Rocks. The Architect SUXORZ.
Reclusive Amherstian poetess FTW!
Transcendental musings:
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
Some keep the Sabbath in surplice;
I just wear my wings,
And instead of tolling the bell for church,
Our little sexton sings.
God preaches,—a noted clergyman,—
And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven at last,
I ’m going all along!
Considering that the Architect can beat Neo's arse, I don't think Emily has a chance.
Oh yeah. She got on my Bang Bus.
Classy :)
Worship me!
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It is a well-known fact that nearly all of Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," or the Gilligan's Island theme song, or any number of other chirpy, sing-song tunes. Think about that the next time you read Dickinson and think how profound it is--on a three-hour tour, a three-hour tour!
Which is all just another mechanism of control devised by the Architect....
Also the Architect wins because he looks like a Kenny Rogers version of Colonel Sanders, and as we all know, the Colonel is a member of the Pentaveret and puts addictive chemicals in his chicken that make us crave it fortnightly, smartarse.
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Emily Dickenson opens up with a simile. The Architect counters with a Horn-clause.
Fight!
(nods to heathansson)
When my wife was in university, she messed with her prof's head by telling him you can sing just about everything Emily Dickenson wrote to "Yellow Rose of Texas"...but I see that Charlie already pointed that out. Super slow motion ninja'd. :)
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It is a well-known fact that nearly all of Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," or the Gilligan's Island theme song, or any number of other chirpy, sing-song tunes. Think about that the next time you read Dickinson and think how profound it is--on a three-hour tour, a three-hour tour!
Which is all just another mechanism of control devised by the Architect....
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I have the same feelings about
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You're so full of it, and I say that in a nice friendly way.
I didn't know a thing about her until an ED course was dumped on me a few years back. It took me a while to get it, but I did eventually, and it wasn't easy to get it through people's heads... do not want to go back.
Not profound? If you don't find conceits of introspection profound then you can't be blamed for not liking her and it would be sensible to conclude that it is vacuous. But don't blame it on her. I don't get Keats, but I don't think it's his whiny fault--I've just never taken the time to get into his flow.
Yah her verse is simple. But dude, some people like Haiku....
** spoiler omitted **You're so full of it, and I say that in a nice friendly way.
I didn't know a thing about her until an ED course was dumped on me a few years back. It took me a while to get it, but I did eventually, and it wasn't easy to get it through people's heads... do not want to go back.
Not profound? If you don't find conceits of introspection profound then you can't be blamed for not liking her and it would be sensible to conclude that it is vacuous. But don't blame it on her. I don't get Keats, but I don't think it's his whiny fault--I've just never taken the time to get into his flow.
Yah her verse is simple. Dude, some people like Haiku....
+1. I find her quite refreshing, and I like her imagery and sly play on concepts. Is she Coleridge or Tennyson? Apples and Oranges.
And I like e.e. cummings so I'm pretty odd in poetry ..
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** spoiler omitted **You're so full of it, and I say that in a nice friendly way.
I didn't know a thing about her until an ED course was dumped on me a few years back. It took me a while to get it, but I did eventually, and it wasn't easy to get it through people's heads... do not want to go back.
Not profound? If you don't find conceits of introspection profound then you can't be blamed for not liking her and it would be sensible to conclude that it is vacuous. But don't blame it on her. I don't get Keats, but I don't think it's his whiny fault--I've just never taken the time to get into his flow.
Yah her verse is simple. But dude, some people like Haiku....
Hey, I like haiku too. Good haiku requires enormous technical ability precisely because the form is so constrained. The best haiku uses only a few words to communicate depth of meaning and resonates on an intuitive level. As Etheridge Knight put it:
Making jazz swing in
Seventeen syllables AIN'T
No square poet's job.
I do, however, like Keats. Hell, I even like Lewis Carroll. And it isn't that I dislike conceits of introspection, it's just that Dickinson doesn't do it that well. Reading Dickinson is like looking at a crayon scribble of a house; by comparison, reading somebody like Donne or Coleridge is like standing in Taliesin West. I'm not hatin on you for liking Dickinson. My momentary lapse of art snobbery notwithstanding, I know plenty of well-read, highly literate folks whose opinions I respect, who also like Dickinson. I just think she's vastly over-rated and especially over-taught.