tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post7398100007376052622..comments2024-03-28T14:04:54.557-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: I should not dare to leave my friend,Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-14099688160240690412023-02-06T18:10:40.152-08:002023-02-06T18:10:40.152-08:00Talk about surprises, 26 of the 103 words in this ...Talk about surprises, 26 of the 103 words in this poem are repetitions [in CAPS below]. How many poems are 25% repetitions? ED enjoyed pushing limits of convention, and here she does it powerfully, like hammering – hammering with a 5-pound sledge. <br /><br />Guilty or not, how can you be unmoved by her imagined failure as a friend?:<br /><br />“SO SURE I’D COME – SO SURE I’D COME – <br />It LISTENING – LISTENING – went to sleep – <br />Telling my tardy name – ”<br /><br />P.S. Do we have another gender switch in Stanza 1?:<br /><br />“I should not dare to leave my friend,<br />BECAUSE – BECAUSE if he [she] should die<br />While I was gone – and I – too late – <br />Should reach the Heart that wanted me – ”<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-73097446239776359792023-02-06T15:21:45.342-08:002023-02-06T15:21:45.342-08:00Or the living.Or the living.Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-1931498102916782012023-02-06T15:15:25.686-08:002023-02-06T15:15:25.686-08:00We the living may presume the dying want family or...We the living may presume the dying want family or friends nearby when their time comes. We may underappreciate that time of death is not always uncontrolled. The dying may wait for someone’s coming, for one last squeeze of hands, or wait for someone’s leaving, to spare them pain. We, the living, don’t always know and don’t always get to decide. Guilt trips don't help the dead.Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-24387049824447021812022-12-09T10:44:55.847-08:002022-12-09T10:44:55.847-08:00The choppy repeated partial phrases remind of some...The choppy repeated partial phrases remind of someone having a difficult time speaking through emotions of grief, as if the friend is on their deathbed at the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-48309799871944740852020-11-04T06:49:44.795-08:002020-11-04T06:49:44.795-08:00This was confusing to read but I feel so bad for p...This was confusing to read but I feel so bad for people in a deathbed and to watch it happen is sad.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434327749444197352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-62868534418077031682018-07-26T07:50:23.797-07:002018-07-26T07:50:23.797-07:00good and awesome it helped me in my project i woul...good and awesome it helped me in my project i would like to thank the poetress to write such a wonderful poem<br />summaiyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-29495208660890374252016-01-20T10:16:13.510-08:002016-01-20T10:16:13.510-08:00Israeli actress/singer Efrat Ben Zur also put this...Israeli actress/singer Efrat Ben Zur also put this poem to music under the title Til The End (from the album Robin: Poems By Emily Dickinson).strangeasaconspiracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484260253508860948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-29928039199234400872013-08-05T21:04:50.111-07:002013-08-05T21:04:50.111-07:00I found that on youtube -- really well done. Thank...I found that on youtube -- really well done. Thanks.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-16010999070830959242013-08-01T17:46:31.350-07:002013-08-01T17:46:31.350-07:00David Sylvian has written a fantastic song using t...David Sylvian has written a fantastic song using this poem as lyrics.<br />World Citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823877078705676356noreply@blogger.com