tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post8587804332122458150..comments2024-03-29T00:07:13.458-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: If pain for peace preparesSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-61802093804915303072023-01-11T14:04:38.274-08:002023-01-11T14:04:38.274-08:00Yes. And today, reading the poem, I see the noons ...Yes. And today, reading the poem, I see the noons blazing from a thousand skies suggesting the firmament — each blazing star having its noon.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-37771268050820343012022-12-30T08:48:04.163-08:002022-12-30T08:48:04.163-08:00Thank you for this comment. I too thought that amo...Thank you for this comment. I too thought that among other subjects she is definitely (and often) talking about her poetry and poetry in general. For me, among the layered meanings, is that poetry flows out of pain, out of cold, out of darkness. Poetry is the ultimate noon, god, blessing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-39637824666884908132022-11-09T16:18:54.671-08:002022-11-09T16:18:54.671-08:00The “Augustan years”, Pax Romana, were two centuri...The “Augustan years”, Pax Romana, were two centuries of relative peace (27BC - 180AD), increasing prosperity from east-west trade, and maximum expanse of Roman territory and population (40 million) following Antony and Cleopatra’s defeat at sea by Augustus. (Wikipedia)<br /><br />ED’s Augustan years were 1855-1865, during which she wrote 1116 poems. The first five years witnessed painful personal transitions, but by 1860, birthdate of this poem, ‘If pain for peace prepares’, ED had committed her life to poetry with great expectations, “Lo, what "Augustan" years / Our feet await!”, equating her poems to flowers, “Can the Anemones / Be reckoned up?”, aware of her genius, “If night stands first—then noon / To gird us for the sun, / What gaze!”, promising amazing poems, “When from a thousand skies / On our developed eyes / Noons blaze!”.<br /><br />Distribution of poems by year, the earliest known manuscript of a poem determining the year in which the poem is counted.<br /><br />Year Franklin #s Total<br />1850 1 1<br />1852 2 1<br />1853 3 1<br />1854 4 1<br />1858 5-47 43<br />1859 48-129 82<br />1860 130-183 54<br />1861 184-271 88<br />1862 272-498 227<br />1863 499-793 295<br />1864 794-891 98<br />1865 892-1120 229<br />1866 1121-1130 10<br />1867 1131-1142 12<br />1868 1143-1153 11<br />1869 1154-1164 11<br />I870 1165-1192 28<br />1871 1193-1240 48<br />1872 1241-1275 35<br />1873 1276-1313 38<br />1874 1314-1351 38<br />1875 1352-1385 34<br />1876 1386-1416 31<br />1877 1417-1458 42<br />1878 1459-1481 23<br />1879 1482-1516 35<br />1880 1517-1542 26<br />1881 1543-1567 25<br />1882 1568-1594 27<br />1883 1595-1628 34<br />1884 1629-1670 42<br />1885 1671-1683 13<br />1886 1684-1685 2<br />??? 1686-1789 104<br /><br />(Franklin 1998, Appendix 2, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Vol III, pp 1533-1534)<br /><br />Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-20638217915716496472022-04-05T08:59:46.195-07:002022-04-05T08:59:46.195-07:00Thanks, William -- for both the compliment and the...Thanks, William -- for both the compliment and the correction. Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-46031556739985470122022-04-05T08:58:05.382-07:002022-04-05T08:58:05.382-07:00I like this comment and wish I'd noticed it wh...I like this comment and wish I'd noticed it when originally submitted! So many ways to read Dickinson, year after year.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-50915724338129801552022-04-05T08:20:58.666-07:002022-04-05T08:20:58.666-07:00Susan, your brilliance shines like a thousand skie...Susan, your brilliance shines like a thousand skies / for it does a path blaze TBC FYI the Johnson number appears to be #63williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06490989877870103626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-17954159224997928482012-11-08T18:13:17.291-08:002012-11-08T18:13:17.291-08:00In the 19th century "development" was de...In the 19th century "development" was definitely in the philosophical air. On the Origin of Species was published the same year this poem might have been written. I wonder if Dickinson had evolution in mind at all when writing this poem. Evolution is what I think of when reading "When from a thousand skies / On our _developed_ eyes / Noons blaze!" So in my reading the thousand skies include past, present, and future ones.Douglas Lucashttp://www.douglaslucas.comnoreply@blogger.com