tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post4739560075282276422..comments2024-03-29T00:07:13.458-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: The Robin is the OneSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-38504869152646354592023-12-28T19:11:51.844-08:002023-12-28T19:11:51.844-08:00You might find it most easily by process of elimin...You might find it most easily by process of elimination.<br />Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-83933187550287190872023-12-28T14:00:42.508-08:002023-12-28T14:00:42.508-08:00What line in the first stanza describes the Robin&...What line in the first stanza describes the Robin's songAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-56961327592834537022023-10-24T16:07:24.268-07:002023-10-24T16:07:24.268-07:00I agree that the three plural verbs sound better. ...I agree that the three plural verbs sound better. However, I disagree that there is any grammatical excuse for using plural verbs: “quantity” is singular, not plural, and “that Home—and Certainty / And Sanctity, are best” is the direct object of “Robin . . . submit”, not the “actual subject” of “Robin . . . submit”. Editors of The Atlantic Monthly (October 1891) simply could not abide the grammar error and corrected the verbs to singular, just the stuff ED complained of and came to expect from editors.<br /><br />ED used plural verbs because she thought they sounded better. Her academic "Promotion and Tenure Committee" wasn't looking over her shoulder for grammatical correctness.<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-29792004971369351542013-12-18T22:33:30.018-08:002013-12-18T22:33:30.018-08:00Guess it says something about the novel ...
But ...Guess it says something about the novel ... <br />But thanks! Need that Dickinson brain work out.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-42414745947711774762013-12-11T09:48:39.782-08:002013-12-11T09:48:39.782-08:00Yes, that's interesting; I hadn't thought ...Yes, that's interesting; I hadn't thought about it. It does give an interrupted, tumbled quality -- as if the "One" is standing for the Many.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-21826872465633880512013-12-11T08:41:07.928-08:002013-12-11T08:41:07.928-08:00One interesting aspect of this poem is that ED use... One interesting aspect of this poem is that ED uses a singular noun (Robin) as subject of each stanza, emphasizing the singular with the words "is the One". She then uses a plural verb (interrupt, overflow, submit). The actual subject in some sense comes after the verb (Reports, quantity, Certainty and Sanctity).<br /><br /> The odd syntax creates a jarring effect the echoes the meaning of the word "interrupt" in the first stanza. I like it. I don't think that there is more to it than that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-24547949139123888782013-12-11T08:34:59.124-08:002013-12-11T08:34:59.124-08:00 Welcome back! Welcome back! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com