this kinda weird emo lesbian is so iconic!

READ&DATHON 2019: Races: Halfling - Read a book that’s under 200 pages. "I felt a funeral in my brain,And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemedThat sense was breaking through."And when they all were seated,A service like a drumKept beating, beating, till I thoughtMy mind was going numb.And then I heard them lift a box,And creak across my soulWith those same boots of lead, again,Then space began to tollAs all the heavens were a bell,And Being but an ear,And I and silence...

The poetry is beautiful, I just found some of them hard to understand... Still I understand that this is the way the writer chose to portray her feelings and that poetry is not supposed to be read and done. You should ponder and study it a bit. But yeah, 4.5 stars

I take it back poetry isn’t obnoxious. turns out it’s a me thing apparently i can endure poetry only if it’s gay

"A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tisTo meet an antique book...He lived where dreams were born."

I felt a funeral in my brain,And mourners, to and fro,Kept treading, treading, till it seemedThat sense was breaking through.And when they all were seated,A service like a drumKept beating, beating, till I thoughtMy mind was going numb.And then I heard them lift a box,And creak across my soulWith those same boots of lead, again,Then space began to tollAs all the heavens were a bell,And Being but an ear,And I and silence some strange race,Wrecked, solitary, here.* And then a plank in reas

a rlly fckn good short collection of her work

this is the second emily dickinson collection i've read, and both had the same effect me: some poems absolutely fascinated me and made me go batshit insane, and some i simply didn't understand, which is fine! i'll keep reading more of her work though, because i'm obsessed with her.

From the school of rhyming (tee tum tee tum tee tum) poetry comes...Nothing! there is no depth, no pleasure. It just never evoked the imagination. Now there are people who think this is grand poetry, good for them.All in all this is a good example of why I never liked poetry for many, many years.

A Penguin Little Black Classics sampler containing 52 pages of Dickinson’s idiomatic verse. As seems to be the case with these LBC titles, the selection and arrangement are haphazard at best, but there’s no denying the unique, turbulent and often fragmentary quality of the poetry.

Read all my reviews on http://urlphantomhive.booklikes.com The problem with the Little Black Classics is that because of their size, there is never any introduction to either author of work and you are immediately thrown at it. While this can sure be a blessing at times, other times this makes me feel lost and I want to understand the importance of Emily Dickinson's words, but in this way it all fell flat a little. Because, while the poems were nice enough (in style, in subject they were pretty

i’m not sure i know how to rate this (so i won’t) — i really liked some of these, i couldn’t quite connect with others but ms dickinson has peaked my interest...

(with a flower)Some of these were really good,Others though were not,And some of them didn't rhyme,Which bothered me sometimes.In all seriousness, I really enjoyed the ones I had read before, making me think that they just need to grow on me. Also probably accounting for the meh-feeling I had about many poems, was just that some essential words were not part of my vocabulary, and I couldn't bother looking everything up as some poems just had too many. :') But that's on my, not on Emily.While 'I

Matt Haig, author of The Humans, kept mentioning in some of his works the importance of reading Emily Dickinson's poems and so here I am! I am quite overwhelmed, I should say. I'm giving this collection a temporary rating of 3 stars because I think I would need to reread it to further understand the workings of her mind. Her poems are unique; so unlike any other I had ever read. I am very curious and looking forward to reading her other works.

****3.0****I was told that Emily Dickinson's poetry is a must to read by Matt Haig. In his book "The humans" he kept referring Ms Dickinson so much that I had added her poems to my Mental TBR. So when I got a chance I just grabbed the book.To be honest I did not understand her poems completely but some poems made sense and also made me think that I am reading it superficially. I need to read it again. Till then 3 stars.Happy Reading!!!!

"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."

Yikes. I really wanted to love Emily Dickinson (and I am not giving up on her just now, don't worry) but this selection of her poetry didn't impress me at all. There was not one memorable line that 'got me'.Maybe I should explain how I consume poetry for this to make sense. Whenever I read poetry collections I don't have the expectation that every poem will woe me, heck, I already know that most poems won't. What I look for is one poem, sometimes even just one verse, that totally gets me. That I...

This is the kind of book after reading which you’ll need to take a moment and catch your breath.Emily Dickinson has done a marvelous job molding all these subjects that seemed fascinating to her into a beautiful collection of poems. And the themes. Dear lord does the list go on. From “death” and “the question of God’s existence” to “depression” and possibly “anxiety” to her physical health and her one blind eye to “language”, “poetry” and “the process of creativity” and even to a riddle-like poe...

I'd actually give this collection a 3.5. It's difficult to rate because while the poems that I liked, I 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 liked, some of the others went a bit over my head. I do like her writing style, though, and the way she picks her words. There are a couple of gems here, also a couple I didn't get but liked, and some that mostly left me puzzled. I'm rounding this up to 4 stars because that's what I do (◠‿・)—☆

This is my favorite stanza of the whole collection. It's gorgeous. "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."