What am I reading?

my reply

Emily Dickinson, please.
What are you doing in a picture? You are dead, RIP, please.

The Brain within its groove
Runs evenly and true
But let a Splinter swerve
'Twere easier for you

To put a Current back
When Floods have slit the hills
And Scooped a Turnpike for Themselves
And Trodden out the Mills

That's the only poem i've got memories, except for the punctuation and capitalisation.

For some reason I find her poetry to be juvenile. It's as if a third grader wrote it. Can't stop imagining Lisa Simpson. A nonentity. Means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

unpopular opinion time: I like her more than Whitman.

she's such a downer

I think a lot of people who want to read poetry have her kind of poetry in mind

>>7619043
Because I could not stop for Death

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –

;_;

>>7619200
>juvenile
Just like your thought process?

>>7619200

you don't read much poetry then.

I find that people who read only meme poets (langston hughes, silvia plath, etc.) tend to like her. People who have read some freshman basics (Canto I of Pound, The Wasteland, Ode to a Grecian Urn) act defiant and shit all over her. And then those who have read a lot of poetry respect her whether they like her or not, because she was a startlingly original poet. There's a reason even Harold Bloom puts her in his top lists. I think he ranks her over Hart Crane for originality and we know how much he loves his Crane.

I'm new to poetry and reading her is just brutal sometimes