Emily+Dickinson's+style

We have talked about Emily Dickinson's style, but what about your opinion of the structure of her sentences? Take for example, when Dickinson passed away and the editor corrected her poems to a way that made sense to him, and it flows better. Her poems seem to not flow at first, and have random and mysterious capitalized letters. Also, what to the hyphens mean? In my opinion, reading her poetry takes some getting used to. Slant rhymes and constant hyphens make it difficult. Even the deeper meaning seems impossible to find. But if you take the time to read it and study her style, her poems are truely beautiful. Do you think that it's worth the time to try to understand her sentences and meanings behind her poetry? 1205204447

I thought her style was a good kind of different change from the poetry we had been reading up to that point in the class. her lines were shorter and had more rhythm than Whitman had. She wrote alot like what i would think of as "normal" poetry but at the same time it was something strange and different. The ways and words she used to express her feelings could be confusing at times but after some explaintion they began to make sense and i was able to see where she was trying to take me as the reader. But there were also certain points of our readings where i said to myself "there is no wayshe actually meant this to have this meaning" it sometimes seemed like we took her too deep to the point where she just thought the words sounded good together but we now made up some rediculous meaning for her poems to have. 1205205362

I personally do not really like Emily Dickinson's writing style. I find her poetry to be very boring. I think I dont find it very interesting is becasue I do not like poetry very much, and Emily Dickinson's style makes it even harder to understand the poems we read in class. I also don't really like all the hyphens she uses in her poems, I don't really get why she uses them all over her poems. I also don't really like how she uses beats in her poetry, when I was writing my poem in class in a Emily Dickinson sort of way I found it hard to get the beats right. The only thing I like about her poems is that they rhyme sometimes and the fact that she writes about life. I did find her writing style very different though than what I am used to when it comes to poetry. 1205261466

I also don't like Emily Dickinson poetry, the reason for that is because I don't like poetry. However I do like some of her poems. When we had to write our own poems in her format it was very difficult because in my opinion she does not have a format or a style. I know Brother Tom told us what her style was and how to use it which was very helpful, but it is still very hard to duplicate. I also have the same question that khe has, why in the world are there hyphens after every three or four words in her poems? What are they supposed to emphasize? They just make me more confused because I think that she wants us to find a hidden meaning in what she wrote before the hyphen but I can never find a hidden meaning so I have no clue what they could be used for.

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For the most part I'm also not a big fan of poetry. The main thing that I don't like about poetry is that for the most part it has a hidden meaning to it and you are expected to find it. Personally, I think that they should just come right out and say what they are trying to say instead of beating around the bush. When it comes to Emily Dickinson, I think that her poems are ok. Some of them are nice because I can use them for different projects that have to do with words of wisdom and stuff like that. I also like some of her poems because some of them are about nature and the picture that they paint is really pretty. The thing that I don't like about her poetry is that in every poem there is a hidden meaning that we are supposed to find and according to what I heard in class, some people's personal interpretation on the meaning could be wrong even though it is their opinion. I think that poetry is too complicatated. For the most part I think that her poems are ok. 1205365945

The only part of Emily Dickinson's poetry that i really like is the fact that this lady thinks up some really far out stuff. I don't no where she gets the ideas for her writting. She is always talking about death, but she talks about it like it is something that she almost looks forward to. This doesn't make any sense in my head. One other aspect that i like is her comparisons, she is a master at finding a comparison that fits a situation almost perfectly. Even though the two items she compares have no relation to each other they both seem to always have a major thing that links them. mme

I believe the way Emily Dickinson structures her sentences and wording in her stanzas is very unique and also very interesting. Becuase every poet has different techniques in the way they rhyme and write their sentences, its cool as a reader to discover and recognize the differences. I find that the way she rhymes is more interesting then her sentence structure. Her rhyming scheme almost looks like (when just reading her poetry through quickly) looks like someone who dosen't know how to rhyme just cut corners to make it look like they rhymed their poetry somewhat. Emily Dickinson didn't just carelessly throw off skelter ryhmes in her poems, she strategically placed the ryhmes and the stanzas in a new technique that she created called Slant Rhyme. She varies, in a patterened way, from having perfect rhymes to not even rhyming at all. She will ryhme different lines in the stanza and then just ryhme words by their first letter. It's very wierd to first read and try to understand, but once you get the way in which she writes, it's awesome to see the way she uses her technique and the way in which she varies it throughout her poems.

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The way that Emily Dickinson writes is very unique. I too am not a big fan of poetry, but when I read Emily's poems, most of them have hidden messages that if you re-read them, you can find. I like the style that she writes in, it is from a different perspective. Maybe if everyone had the mindset the she did, we could learn to accept things a lot easier. In her writing she always has great comparisons to what she is talking about. With the comparisons that she uses, it makes the reading a little easier. I am a fan of her writing and the way she flips around a terrible situation to look at the bright side of it is very moving. 1205376562 I agree with dte, I really don’t like Emily Dickinson's writing style. I think it is just too monotonous and tedious. I don’t find it that interesting, because I do not like poetry that much, and Emily Dickinson's technique makes it even more difficult to understand the poems we read in class. I also really don't like all the hyphens she uses in her poems; I don't quite understand why she has them all over the place in her poems. I also hate the way she uses beats in her poetry, when I was writing my poem in class in an Emily Dickinson’s writing style I discovered it hard to get the beats to be right on. The one thing that I don’t hate about her poetry is that they rhyme most of the time and the fact that she writes about life. I also find her writing style very different than what I am used to when it comes to poetry. 1205449196