tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post3606340328567840591..comments2024-03-28T14:04:54.557-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: Civilization – spurns – the Leopard!Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-12132335900068680402023-04-06T10:21:03.184-07:002023-04-06T10:21:03.184-07:00Vendler (2010) notes that “This [F276] is one of D...Vendler (2010) notes that “This [F276] is one of Dickinson's poems to a "Master”, here a "keeper" addressed by the honorific "Signor".” This is also the only time ED mentions “Leopard” and “Signor” in the same poem. She also uses the word “keeper”, which occurs in only two poems, this one and F1754, both times attributed to “Master” by Farr and [by] Vendler.” <br /><br />Thus, F276 is (almost) a Rosetta Stone of ED appellations: signor, keeper, (Master?). ED also uses the word “Keeper” in a third poem, F818, but there “Keeper of this Ring” refers to the bride (ED?) of the Holy Trinity (God?).<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-58876302995750073762023-04-05T09:06:17.707-07:002023-04-05T09:06:17.707-07:00Comment and speculation:
‘Civilization – spurns –...Comment and speculation:<br /><br />‘Civilization – spurns – the Leopard!’ (F276) packs intense baggage: her “Leopard persona”, her saucy second line echoing ML3 (“Oh, did I offend it”), her rebuke of “Signor/keeper” for frowning on her “nature”, and her spurning of religious “Narcotic” and “Balm”. Those were withering words to send to a conservative Presbyterian minister whom she swooned over in 1855, fantasized in subsequent letters, worshipped when he visited her in 1860, chastised when he criticized her “Leopard’s nature”, and insulted with pejorative “Narcotic” and “Balm” in response to his well-meant Christian advice to a hysterical female poet. <br /><br />ED copied the only surviving manuscript of F276 “about early 1862” (Franklin 1998). In late April 1862, Reverend Charles Wadsworth, a legendary Philadelphia minister with a secure future at Arch Street Presbyterian Church, packed up his family and moved to an unstable ministry in San Francisco, where leading church members opposed his appointment. In 1869 he returned to Philadelphia as pastor of the Third Reformed (Dutch) Church. <br /><br />Coincidence?<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-40814949105258398322020-11-02T18:26:22.387-08:002020-11-02T18:26:22.387-08:00Ah, religion being the opiates of the people. It c...Ah, religion being the opiates of the people. It could work that way or, like 'balm', just refer to a drug.<br />Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-18702445899307941862020-11-02T14:28:06.488-08:002020-11-02T14:28:06.488-08:00I always thought the "narcotics" were re...I always thought the "narcotics" were religion. It's meant to teach people how to behave. They will be rewarded if they do. Louis Papehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06576037015724144834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-41296307052204480072016-07-31T02:00:53.512-07:002016-07-31T02:00:53.512-07:00Being a non native speaker. This analysis was very...Being a non native speaker. This analysis was very helpful . It made me understand 18th century american themes in a better manner . Thank you 1 :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-88230901604684303712016-02-05T01:29:29.105-08:002016-02-05T01:29:29.105-08:00nah famnah famAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-11181307498346792862016-02-05T01:28:36.661-08:002016-02-05T01:28:36.661-08:00I agree, though unless I am upmost mistaken, there...I agree, though unless I am upmost mistaken, there seems to be a lack in analysis of structure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-63208021236580425052016-02-05T01:24:28.135-08:002016-02-05T01:24:28.135-08:00this is pretty sickthis is pretty sickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com