tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post5779370166479432510..comments2024-03-28T14:04:54.557-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: My friend must be a BirdSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-6640276494191459602022-09-02T08:21:46.017-07:002022-09-02T08:21:46.017-07:00I'd be pleased if you shared your teacher'...I'd be pleased if you shared your teacher's -- and your -- thoughts on the poems. There are often, especially with Dickinson poems, multiple ways of reading a poem.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-7250953138060373602022-09-01T21:50:09.785-07:002022-09-01T21:50:09.785-07:00my teacher said thats wrongmy teacher said thats wrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-87298543071067776732022-05-26T14:55:51.352-07:002022-05-26T14:55:51.352-07:00It seems likely this poem is about Susan D, in whi...It seems likely this poem is about Susan D, in which case the neuter pronoun ‘it’ is a disguise for the feminine ‘she’: <br /><br />My friend must be a Bird—<br />Because she flies!<br />Mortal, my friend must be,<br />Because she dies!<br />Barbs has she, like a Bee!<br />Ah, curious friend!<br />Thou puzzlest me!<br /><br />The last line tells us that ED never knows what to expect from Susan. Sometimes she seems emotionally distant, as if she doesn’t love ED, yet, making love, Susan seems a healthy mortal as she dies in Emily’s embrace. What really puzzles ED, however, is how, after intimacy, Susan can hurt her with unexpected stinging words.<br />Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-43691298181570926402021-07-08T22:07:22.039-07:002021-07-08T22:07:22.039-07:00I'd think that daily writing is something like...I'd think that daily writing is something like having a journal even if not in a book-like journal. I can't really speak to that more specifically. <br /><br />I wonder about they way in which Dickinson wrote privately. Her audience of one (and what an audience) may have demanded she write as if for readers. Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-18705542328267618832021-06-29T10:14:21.840-07:002021-06-29T10:14:21.840-07:00..and sometimes words have meanings only to those .....and sometimes words have meanings only to those that use them. A personal thought poem for an audience of one. Did ED use her writing of poems to work out her own personal issues, especially with others? Did she ever write in journals?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00725261030659667439noreply@blogger.com