Emily Dickinson

[Anonymous No.11534854]

What's supposedly so good about this bitch? I've tried several times to get into her and can't. Her work seems smug and merely cerebral, without other components. Give me a key to help me see the value of her work if you can. Or tell me why you hate her if you do.

Also, unrelated but didn't she sperg out on her brother for having an affair with a married woman even though she made a habit of doing the same thing? Sounds like she could have used a swift punch to the dome.

[Anonymous No.11534861]

>>11534854
She is /lit/ personified.

[Anonymous No.11534864]

>>11534861
Are you saying she's annoying, fradulent and untalented?

[Anonymous No.11534867]

>>11534854
AYY LMAO

[Anonymous No.11534875]

People pretend to like her because she is one of maybe three women you could cite as proof that female writers aren't terrible.

[Anonymous No.11534885]

>>11534875
Unironically, why are women so bad at writing?

[Anonymous No.11534892]

>>11534885
It's just not their place. People get so offended about that as if writing is inherently a good or worthy goal. Women have things that their gender inherently accels at too and you could make a case that it is far more worthy than men's lot in this prison called life.

[Anonymous No.11534893]

hey op relax
its not like she even wanted ur stupid ass to read her poems

[Anonymous No.11534899]

>>11534893
How am I not relaxed and how do her desires factor into anything we're talking about here? You're a huge faggot.

[Anonymous No.11534920]

>>11534854
>Her work seems smug and merely cerebral, without other components

She is very cerebral but saying that's all there is, implying there's no emotion or mastery of metaphor behind it, seems like a failure on your part.

[Anonymous No.11534964]

She was a shut in volcel NEET, she was ourgal

[Anonymous No.11534972]

>>11534920
No shit. Notice how in that sentence you quoted I used the word 'seems'. As in it's my perception, not her objective failing. And notice how the whole point of my question is to correct said failing by showing me what I'm missing. You fucking retard. You absolute imbecile. You're failing is much larger than mine. I'm failing to comprehend a supposed genius. That's understandable. You can't even conprehend a basic question on 4chan. This board is worthless. I'm leaving.

[Anonymous No.11534983]

She is the best creator of metaphors after Shakespeare, superior even to Melville.

In other words, she is a master of the characteristic that Aristotle said it was the greatest a poet might possess.

She is indeed very obscure and you can’t quite understand many of her poems or get the “message” behind many of her poems. But if you want to learn how to write metaphors or simply enjoy this figure of speech - the greatest of all tropes - then Emily Dickinson’s complete poems is the best place to visit after Shakespeare’s plays.

She was so sensible to language that she read dictionaries in search of new words only to create metaphors with them (like the word “Siroccos”, a desert wind that she says that “crawl” in her flesh). She was also extremely courageous and independent, showing serious doubts about the existence of a God even when she was created in a fervently religious environment, in a time almost everyone believed in God - she said that her family “knelt before an eclipse every morning”).

If she were tested with modern IQ scores I bet her score would be above 150.

[Anonymous No.11534998]

>>11534972
>You can't even conprehend a basic question on 4chan
>conprehend

[Anonymous No.11535016]

>>11534854

She had a delicious meaty tulip that smelled like baking bread. The publishers loved her beef and published her poetry for a chance to berry their faces in her gabagool gash.

[Anonymous No.11535699]

>>11534854
>didn't she sperg out on her brother for having an affair with a married woman even though she made a habit of doing the same thing?
I don't know where you got this from. It's widely known she was a sexless shut-in.

[Anonymous No.11536074]

>>11535016
She was Italian?

[Anonymous No.11536493]

>>11534854
>Oh gawd I don't seem to understand this thing everyone talks about, it must be terrible, prove me wrong, except you can't

[Anonymous No.11536502]

>Dickinson
>Dick in son
hehehe

[Anonymous No.11536515]

>>11536502
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.11536592]

>>11534854
She looks like a female version of that one beta guy in the COD shirt people sometimes post here

You know who I'm talking about

[Anonymous No.11537685]

>>11534854

She wan an INSATIABLE muff huffrix.

[Anonymous No.11537763]

>>11534972
He said it's a failure on your part, aka the issue is not the work but your ability to grasp it. Thus the solution is for you to improve that ability, since demonstrably it's doubtful whether you'd understand even a commentary on her work.

[Anonymous No.11538285]

>>11534892
>It's just not their place.
It it what it is. Coincidentally, It ain't your place either. :-)

[Anonymous No.11538308]

>>11537763
Sophistry. You're retarded and grasping at straws.

>>11538285
Never claimed it was. You're insecurity is showing. You're projecting your desire to be a writer onto me haha.

[Anonymous No.11538316]

It isn't written for you, so it's unsurprising that you don't understand and appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.11538321]

>>11538316
That's so deep.

[Anonymous No.11538332]

>>11538321
Just like your great thread.
Why don't you go find work that contributes something instead of spamming opinions based on things you don't understand to people that despise you?

[Anonymous No.11538353]

>Pain has an element of blank;
>It cannot recollect
>When it began, or if there were
>A day when it was not.

>It has no future but itself,
>Its infinite realms contain
>Its past, enlightened to perceive
>New periods of pain.

Not being in love with literally /our poet.