Quote:
Originally Posted by *Laurie*
 and again
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
I, too, discovered Miss Dickinson in the 4th grade and never forgot that first poem. |
And were you disappointed to find that Miss Emily was not the Obsure Personal Poet, not your singular epiphany, but rather (eek!) as pop-popular as any poet found in Norton anthologies?
I still love reading her. Secret: I don’t like — never liked — Robert Frost. I adore Poe’s poetry
and prose and have openly argued that he is America’s
greatest poet.
(I’ve been chain-smoking for 24-hours.)