At first I was just reading them to be able to finish my assignments but I had to really think about Dickinson's poems in order to understand them. I normally don't enjoy having to reread something multiple times to understand it but I didn't mind with her poems. For instance, "I'm nobody - who are you?" really had me thinking about how people go through life. It is such a short poem but it holds a lot of meaning, and that is true for a lot of other poems of Dickinson. Overall, I am glad that we had a Pod for just poets. I have heard of Dickinson before but never really read any of her work.
I was in the same boat you were. I've never been a big fan of poetry either. Like you though I love Poe's "The Raven." I was thought her poems were kind of hard to undrstand as well. Like you I had to reread them a time or two and really think about what she was saying. What message she was trying to convey. I even ended up liking a couple of them a lot. She had a writting style all her own. I would recomend that everyone read a couple of her poems. They don't know what they are missing if they don't.
ReplyDeleteI also had to read her poems over again. After reading them a couple of times I was able to understand what she was trying to convey. Her poems were short, but held much meaning and were powerful. I had no idea she wrote as many poems as she did.
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