Emily Dickinson, Erotic Grief Counselor
Most readers know that Emily Dickinson was a great poet, but it takes a deep plunge into her collected poems to appreciate just how staggeringly great she was. Usually represented in classrooms by a handful of overfamiliar lyrics (“ Because I could not stop for Death ,” “ There’s a certain Slant of light ,” etc.), she in fact wrote hundreds of poems of comparable brilliance, most of them within the span of just three or four years. During the years 1861–64 she produced, on average, a poem every two days, turning out masterpieces the way some people turn out diary entries.
This output is as much a neurological mystery as a literary feat, and I think it deserves an anniversary celebration. One hundred and fifty years ago, Emily Dickinson caught fire, and no poet—not even Rimbaud a decade later or Rilke in 1922 or Plath in the autumn before suicide—has reached quite the same degree of “ White Heat ” since.
The English language is such an unwieldy monster that dominating it seems impossible; most great writers are lucky just to tame it for a while. Not Dickinson: some of her poems are more interesting than others—she grew less radical as she aged—but she never really wrote a “bad poem” after 1861. Her ear, which seemed so eccentric to contemporaries, turned out to be damn near flawless. In her ability to verb nouns, noun verbs, scramble syntax, and mint a seemingly endless supply of original metaphors—all while exploring the outer reaches of intellect and emotion—she’s American literature’s best example of someone “ thinking like Shakespeare .”
Like Shakespeare, too, she wears a permanent biographical mask. Who was she, really? Why did she stop leaving the house? Did she suffer from all the mental illnesses she’s been retrospectively diagnosed with—or some, or none of them? (“ Much Madness is divinest Sense… ”) What was her sexual orientation? (On the evidence, I’d guess predominantly straight, possibly bi-curious—but I wouldn’t risk a bet on it.) One thing is certain: her life, romantic and otherwise, took place almost entirely on the page.
Because misery loves company, Dickinson is the perfect poet to read when you're in pain. Whatever kind you’re feeling—grief, anger, jealousy, loneliness—she’s felt it as intensely and can express it better. Not that she’s always healthy to read at those moments: like Kafka, she’s a paragon of neurotic martyrdom, of acquiescence to the “Geometric Joy” of our daily prisons. Where Walt Whitman provides ringing affirmations of hope, Dickinson’s poems counsel the voluptuous pleasures of “that White Sustenance – / Despair.
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... When the stir of heart's desire Set the sapling's heart on fire. ... Oh, but life went gaily, gaily, In the house of Idiedaily ! ...The Ingoldsby lyrics
Bush that day, that the house was a-blazing, a thing more amazing, than the fact of ... that heated the bricks, and set fire to the house that Josh burnt. ...The Ingoldsby lyrics, by Thomas Ingoldsby, ed. by his son [R.H.D. Barham].
... house was a-blazing, a thing more amazing, than the fact of John Snell, ... that heated the bricks, and set fire to the house that Josh burnt. ...The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
... 2 "He's not so good in the house, But on a bench in a park You'd be surprised. ... dearie; He looks as cold as an Eskimo, But there's fire in his eyes. ...English Lyrics (chaucer to Poe)
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live ; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, And there be none to quench it in Beth-el. ...Casual Guide Directory
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