tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post4849049077078829693..comments2024-03-28T14:04:54.557-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-77635698922336984672023-12-18T06:33:23.480-08:002023-12-18T06:33:23.480-08:00The poem may be taken simpy about flowers. She ce...The poem may be taken simpy about flowers. She certainly loved them. But I wonder if the “flowers” are perhaps metaphorically her poems. I’ve read that she had dozens, hundreds perhaps, stashed away all over her room, in “cribs”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-61994619132232518782022-09-29T16:37:27.142-07:002022-09-29T16:37:27.142-07:00ED’s flowers are her children and she’s glad she h...ED’s flowers are her children and she’s glad she had them, first the pleasure planting seed, next enduring winter pregnancy, then happy germination, guiding growing up, marriage of pollen with egg (helped by Bee), and final delight when mother becomes grandmother. She kisses them each night and greets them each morning. It’s good, fulfilling for ED, but she also longs for a different kind of love.Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-91894749487190016222020-03-22T14:31:12.328-07:002020-03-22T14:31:12.328-07:00To clarify I agree with the post about night/morni...To clarify I agree with the post about night/morning thing I was having the same thoughts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15561479568530602510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-73683245721100806552020-03-22T14:29:27.853-07:002020-03-22T14:29:27.853-07:00I agree!I agree!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15561479568530602510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-50326707817246570742018-12-11T10:00:18.385-08:002018-12-11T10:00:18.385-08:00You're absolutely right. I must not have been ...You're absolutely right. I must not have been reading well at the time. (But I'm better now at 650 poems than I was at this one, number 127.)Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-48345643048509408952018-12-11T08:09:46.516-08:002018-12-11T08:09:46.516-08:00Doesn't this make more sense referring to flow...Doesn't this make more sense referring to flowers that close at night and open in the morning? It would explain the "raise their pretty lips" line which makes no sense if the flowers are dying in Autumn. Nightgowns would refer to the look of the closed bud of the flower. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08510863948845597900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-28240035335668368582017-01-17T09:35:47.442-08:002017-01-17T09:35:47.442-08:00I don't know about symbolism; her innocent chi...I don't know about symbolism; her innocent children seem like other Victorian writers' innocent children. I don't know about her ever saying anything about not having any. I've never run across it in what I've read of her writing or in my ref. books.<br />Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-69735351568689421682017-01-16T21:48:16.989-08:002017-01-16T21:48:16.989-08:00This seems like a good place to ask two questions ...This seems like a good place to ask two questions about the appearance of children in Dickinson's poems: one, is there a general symbolism and two, had she ever put in writing how she felt about not having children?mcjeepshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15354406129562154763noreply@blogger.com