Emily Dickinson Poem

I have once again read the biography on Emily Dickinson and I have to say it was very interesting. Here is a quote from the first sentence in the paragraph, "While Whitman experienced America and its people, Emily Dickinson observed the life of Amherst, Massachusetts, from her bedroom window, composing poetry that could turn the ordinary into the deeply meaningful" (Dickinson 340). I know that this quote does not make any sense right now, but with the poem that I read in after reading this it makes a lot more sense as to what I meant by that. I found it hard to believe that Dickinson had wrote 1,775 poems in her lifetime, buy only less than a dozen were published in her lifetime (Dickinson 340). I would hate to have that happen to me because you spend your whole life dedicated to reading and writing poetry and you write one thousand poems which is a huge milestone to hit. Back then she was pretty popular, but nowadays she is one of poetries best author. It is a shame that she was not able to stay alive in order to see all the recognition she was able to get to this day.

I read the poem The Lightning is a yellow Fork and I have to say I was a little bit sketched out when I read it the first time. It usually takes me a while to read poetry because it is confusing towards me. Around the third or fourth time I finally realized that I was thinking about it too hard. What I had said in the beginning of the blog, Dickinson observed from her bedroom window and wrote things down (Dickinson 340). This poem seemed to have come from that. It talks about lightning and how it fills up the sky. Here is a quote from the poem, "Of mansions never quite disclosed And never quite concealed The Apparatus of the Dark To ignorance revealed" (Dickinson 341). This is a great quote to go along with the story because it talks about how lightning is so electrifying and how it lights up the sky. This is similar to Emerson's type of writing style because they both love nature and adore looking at the outdoors and writing about it. I would think that Emerson would approve of this poem and would have liked to read it.

Bibliography

Dickinson, Emily. "The Lightning is a yellow Fork." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 340-341. Print.