Emily Dickinson Remembers Abraham Lincoln
..She tied her hat and creased her shawl―

Today I stopped within my daily tasks
And wondered why my footsteps had faltered;
Not wanting to, but then I had to ask,
Why do I still feel my life has altered?
I rearranged the curtains where they fell
And fixed the clocks so they all read the same,
But I knew time had stopped and cast a spell
And there was sorrow surely as my name.
There is a wound that never can be healed
That struck into my heart as though a knife
Had cut away my senses that could feel,
But fourteen doctors could not save his life.
I will to think he must have his reward
For walking in the footsteps of his Lord.

©Artemesia
..1/29/2009

“But awed beyond my errand—/ I worshipped—did not ‘pray’ ”.

Emily Dickinson

I couldn’t resist

being reminded

of something after your poem

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Artemesia,

I'm interested that you think Dickinson's poem is about Lincoln. Is there evidence about this? Were you thinking of it in correspondence to Whitman's elegy on Lincoln?

I think your poem also underlines something very interesting about dickinson--how much her meter contributes to the tone of her poems. When the same theme is recast in iambic pentameter as is the case in most of your poem, the mood is much slower, more contemplative and less urgent.

BTW, I have reported blahblah's post as abuse and it should be removed quickly.

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I have reported blahblah's post as abuse and it should be removed quickly.

yes , we wouldn’t want to let anyone share his or her opinion

while everybody else is sharing their opinions.

I’ll make sure I email you next time

before I share my opinion (sic)

just to make sure that you like it……

Lol

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Beware the nectar of crappy delusions and lemming like lickers …………

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall."
--February 22, 1842

Abraham Lincoln

lol

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; …….

Abraham Lincoln

Letter to Henry L Pierce and others (6 April 1859)

And now at last , a Lincoln quote to remember

when you’ve accidentally read foul atrocious poetry

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

lol

I think the key word is decency

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I think the key word is decency

I think the key word is my own opinion

And I don’t give a damn what you think

BBBs, here on the PoemsFray, we try to hold ourselves to a higher form of respect for each other than on other Slate Frays. There's nothing wrong with having differing opinions, but we try to avoid personal attacks.

Mary Ann

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There's nothing wrong with having differing opinions, but we try to avoid personal attacks.

My quote was as follows----

I couldn’t resist

being reminded

of something after your poem

This is what I said-------I did not personally attack the person who wrote the poem

So you are wrong.--------The poem reminded me of barf------

my thinking that a poem is a travesty and horrible is not a personal attack.

It is my opinion about a poem ,and I am entitled to it.

So get over ---

If someone puts poetry on Slate and they are not prepared to hear what others think about their poetry , that's their problem . Period,

This is to MaryAnn---------And one more thing

It’s a pattern of people in Poetry fray to be easily offended by the opinions-replies with regard to what someone has posted . So instead of ignoring the opinion of a person (me) if you don’t like it , people insist on attacking that person whose opinion it is. This is paltry sycophancy at work.

This fray is supposed to be about responding to something someone has posted, and all you people are doing is getting upset because you disagree with somebody’s opinion , that they are allowed to and entitled to have. It’s a rather childish response to what is in fact supposed to be taking place here.

And yet your beautiful self always seems to chime in too. When you don’t need to.

If you don’t like what I think about a poem. I could care less.

You’d better learn to ignore me better! The same goes for others too.

I will not sit here and let an imbecile claim intellectual liberties

with one of the greatest women poets

this country has ever produced.

ARE WE CLEAR YET ?

I will not sit here and let an imbecile claim intellectual liberties

with one of the greatest women poets

this country has ever produced.

If you don’t like what I have to say, the best thing that you can do is ignore me

because my response has become the focus point of this post

And not the %&$# (*&^())(*^%* poem posted by another.

I have been defending myself---- and I will continue to do so as necessary.

You Dig ?

So congratulations for not discussing poetry , good or bad.

And congratulations for attacking what another person has

( in his opinion ) legitimately and or interestingly said

And for falsely claiming what in fact has occurred.

All because you are not prepared to hear my opinion.

Your coming after me is a double standard nearing hypocrisy --------

You really think you have a right to be upset with my opinion

and I don’t have a right to be upset with someone else ‘s opinion-poem ?

Anybody who went to look at that barf link did so of their volition.

So take your little hurt feelings and learn be responsible for them.

Because I will not.

For all you know, Emily told me to do it

because she despises when other people use her poetry

as an excuse to write inferior verse in her name.

LONG LIVE EMILY DICKINSON

Signed, the gatekeeper

This is what happens when you lower your expectations .

Emily Dickinson told me to post this

Because she thinks it’s hilarious.

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Remember , if you decide to watch this

and you get offended for any reason

don’t come crying to me

Because I no longer treat

Incurable masochists……….…..lol

they don't respond to therapy..............lol

Artemesia, I like the way the historical research is incorporated into your analyses. You may also be interested in the relatively new theory about ED's relationship with Willam Smith Clark. This is the most convincing case I've seen for the identity of the man in her life. Daniela Giosefi has an article setting out the evidence for ED's relationship with William Clark, based on the book in progress by Ruth Owen Jones. It's iin CHELSEA LITERARY REVIEW, Spring 2007. There is also an article here, "Wild Nights: ED and Me": <link>

blahblahblah, thank you for turning us on to the Antonia videos. I also feel that ED would have loved Antonia!!!!! Giosefi, in her Chelsea Literary Review article, uses Jones' research to convey a very different picture of ED than the stereotypical one we all know from the biographies. The ED in this new research is lively and vibrant with a great sense of humor, just as one might suspect from the poems themselves.

Annie

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Hi annie , thank you so much for the Emily article- link . It's again below, with some lines from it. I am about 1/3 of the way through it, and will read the rest soon . It’s one of the more interesting articles about Emily Dickinson that I’ve ever read.

( I haven’t really read that many…lol)

Emily was so beautifully , her own person , through and through.

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Ruth Owen Jones carefully documented article: “Neighbor—and friend—and Bridegroom” William Smith Clark as Emily Dickinson’s Master Figure.”

Dr. William Smith Clark believed that women had the right to an education and a profession as well. One can imagine him nurturing her love of gardening, her plant conservatory, her herbarium, and her poetry with its reverence for natural wonders and Transcendentl ideas of the value of science over scripture.

Indeed.

Here are a couple of articles that I found

a couple of days ago that are really interesting

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thanks again annie