Saturday, November 19, 2011
Dickinson.
I like Emily more than Whitman because she did poetry for herself. Real poetry is made for the benefit of poetry itself, not for other people. She wanted to express herself and that's what she did with her poetry. She might have seemed crazy for being locked up in her house all the time, but she did it because of the hurt she felt which could have been caused by so many things. Her poetry is through her personal experience and insight, not really giving a crap about what anyone in the outside world had to say. To top it off, she was a lesbian. Even though she wasn't crazy out there about being gay, she was awesome for being secure towards herself about loving a woman.
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She was pretty awesome. I can't decide who i like the best D:
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you Sara she was an awesome person for the simple fact that she did poems just because they were poems not because people had to understand what she wanted.
ReplyDeleteI also like the fact that she wrote her poems because it came from her to do it. Also the fact that she never did them to get money for them like other poets would. Dickinson was also a very interesting woman and by her staying at her house that entire time explains a lot of the person she was.
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