Real readers. Real reactions. No wrong interpretations.
VerseVoyager
Lost in metaphor since 1998.
StanzaStan
Every poem is a small door.
InkAndIvy
Romantics only. ☽
OdeObserver
The world is charged with meaning.
LyricLens
Poetry is compressed lightning.
on In this short Life by Emily Dickinson
The brevity here belies the gravity. To be simple, lyrical and weighty all at once in as few words as possible is a rare talent. While this one is simple, not all Dickinson verses generally are. Mary Oliver’s poem has that distinction of being simple and profound. But like Shakespeare, and unlike say a Wallace Stevens or a T.S. Eliot, Dickinson is quite dechiperable.
on Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
The language is amazingly easy to understand once you pause and unravel it slowly. The archaic sentence construction is half the challenge here.
