tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post3168937468837210969..comments2024-03-29T06:02:33.720-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: Forever at His side to walk –Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-56530949131290406432023-03-24T15:13:38.879-07:002023-03-24T15:13:38.879-07:00The first two stanzas fit together as a unified po...The first two stanzas fit together as a unified poem, albeit obsequious. ED was probably obsessing over Rev. Wadsworth’s aftern00n visit in March 1860. <br /><br />Stanza 3 stands alone as a fine poem about impossibility of perfect communication, at least in this world.<br /><br />Can anyone fathom a reason why ED thought the two “poems” formed a poetic unity?<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-66706064694450444552023-01-21T15:13:53.485-08:002023-01-21T15:13:53.485-08:00It is easy, even pleasant, to humbly declare that ...It is easy, even pleasant, to humbly declare that we are inferior when it is evident that we are superior... Greatness is admitting our inferiority when we are really inferior. Emily Dickinson was a superwoman and I am pretty sure she knew perfectly well she was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-52444930871467012012017-07-24T09:05:28.728-07:002017-07-24T09:05:28.728-07:00Sweet! At last men learn the answer to "what ...Sweet! At last men learn the answer to "what do women want?" I think, though, that Dickinson was using the universal "men", as folks did until, oh, about the 1970s-80s. She probably meant 'people'. Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-21252848014925041752017-07-24T07:27:04.479-07:002017-07-24T07:27:04.479-07:00Perhaps the last three lines mean that men finally...Perhaps the last three lines mean that men finally will understand women (us) and what puzzled them in life. This is a contrast to the subservience of the first two stanzas. Jodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13112365101884918860noreply@blogger.com