tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post2654003292771743477..comments2024-03-27T11:02:20.107-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: All the letters I can write Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-26265417770980674572023-07-08T15:10:23.261-07:002023-07-08T15:10:23.261-07:00Lovely dancing, denizens, but we can have it both ...Lovely dancing, denizens, but we can have it both ways: lovely rose lips and lovely rosy labia, major and minor. <br /><br />Recanting unnecessary. By now we know ED was a genius, as she told us. When ED wrote something, she knew exactly what she was saying, both levels, maybe more, for better or for worse. She only asks us to “Open me carefully”. <br /><br />Eudocia Flynt knew exactly what ED meant and said it in explicit Victorian English, “Had a letter from Emily Dickinson!!!!”. Let’s be honest.<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-34581449242754632242023-04-24T20:05:15.593-07:002023-04-24T20:05:15.593-07:00I love the last two sentences of your comment!
I love the last two sentences of your comment!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-5397348989052061432023-04-22T06:15:51.098-07:002023-04-22T06:15:51.098-07:00Thank you for unlocking this poem with the cousin ...Thank you for unlocking this poem with the cousin and ruby rose info. Very helpful.d scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242682202760522439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-59514519223486915432023-04-22T06:14:13.764-07:002023-04-22T06:14:13.764-07:00Hid lip I take to be lip of the cup of the "d...Hid lip I take to be lip of the cup of the "deep cup" rose, from which the hummingbird (cousin, we) will sip. But how this all conflates to become Emily ("me") and the poetry ("syllables, sentences") and sexual ("Hid, lip...Humming Bird sipped") at once is swoony. We are all the hummingbird (or prowling bee!) sipping at the hidden lip in the poetry of Ms. Emily. It's plush and velvety in there. d scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08242682202760522439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-30702381970328015412022-03-11T19:35:32.076-08:002022-03-11T19:35:32.076-08:00I'm just seat and relax reading different opin...I'm just seat and relax reading different opinions from you all. A kind of addicted to it!! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12688504237348006389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-69834002776877855542015-05-01T08:28:08.121-07:002015-05-01T08:28:08.121-07:00Yes, I totally recant my 2/9/15 comment and agree ...Yes, I totally recant my 2/9/15 comment and agree with you and Anon 10/15: ED is adding a graceful and affectionate note to the flower: Her cousin is to inhale deeply of the flower, just as the hummingbird drinks its ruby depths -- and this will be not only a kiss, but the continuance of what must have been a deep conversation!<br /><br />I'm less convinced that ED was making overt or even conscious sexually charged remarks. But it is certainly easy to read in ED's reference to her cousin's vase, the flower's ruby depths, and the sipping of hidden lips a very female sexuality. Lovely poem.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-51696216059553615022015-05-01T06:19:31.839-07:002015-05-01T06:19:31.839-07:00Thanks for all of this, SK and others. Last two li...Thanks for all of this, SK and others. Last two lines do baffle no matter what: any chance there is a LARGE elision (Play it as if you were a hummingbird that had just sipped me?). I guess I' agreeing with the 2/10/15 anonymous one and elaborating. So the rose IS not ED, but her sand in, her way of, as she said in her letter, of continuing the conversation with sexual fantasizing. Then the cliched lover's rhyme of thee/me becomes quite charged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-62636766332330038112015-02-10T05:13:38.043-08:002015-02-10T05:13:38.043-08:00I read it as ED is the rose and Flynt is the hummi...I read it as ED is the rose and Flynt is the hummingbird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-78321233294047695012015-02-09T08:41:54.053-08:002015-02-09T08:41:54.053-08:00I still find the last image difficult. I now read ...I still find the last image difficult. I now read it as "Pretend the rose is a hummingbird and just sipped my nectar". It would make more sense to me if Flynt were to be the hummingbird and Dickinson the rose -- or something. <br /><br />I can see how the poem might be read as poetry vs. prose -- or perhaps a statement of what Dickinson aimed for in her poetry: something as lovely as the rose.Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-82568957567884299102015-02-09T05:31:44.949-08:002015-02-09T05:31:44.949-08:00I also wonder if she is referring to her poem as w...I also wonder if she is referring to her poem as well as the enclosed rose-- thank you for adding context. Before I read your commentary, I thought she was making a distinction between verse and prose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-6981311829832893082015-02-09T05:27:56.150-08:002015-02-09T05:27:56.150-08:00ED seems unabashed in her sexually charged images ...ED seems unabashed in her sexually charged images related to both women and men, and yet the sexuality maintains an air of innocence as if flowing through the heart of a little girl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com