Friday, November 16, 2007

No Callers, Please -- We're Poets

"No Callers, Please -- We're Poets" is an article from the New York Times Archive discussing Victorian women poets who led cloistered lives but wrote "inexplicably fiery, sexy, sharp-witted verse." Contrasts Dickinson's "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" with Whitman's "I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Friday, November 2, 2007

How ironic

How strangely ironic to choose this poem "Nobody." A Blog is all about establishing a presence on the Web. A Bog? How Public. Is this how I become a Frog? I feel like a foil to my own subconscious.

Sweet Emily

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155

Video of "I'm Nobody"

There's an interesting video at the Favorite Poem Project of "I'm Nobody" being read and talked about by a 16-year old: http://www.favoritepoem.org/

I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288)
by Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!

How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one's name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!