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bashayernouri's review against another edition
4.0
Rating: 4.5
My goodness, what a woman! It was a pleasure to come across Emily Dickinson. I am thrilled that I read this one. I have so much in my mind right now that I want to discuss. After Rumi (more like the great Rumi), this one is the second complex poetry book I have ever read, but every part of me is glad that I did!
Shakespeare sonnets may join the third place soon.
Review: soon (I write this sentence with every book I finish hoping that I will write the review soon; but “soon” in my dictionary means when I have the mood for it, which is never. Smh lol)
My goodness, what a woman! It was a pleasure to come across Emily Dickinson. I am thrilled that I read this one. I have so much in my mind right now that I want to discuss. After Rumi (more like the great Rumi), this one is the second complex poetry book I have ever read, but every part of me is glad that I did!
Shakespeare sonnets may join the third place soon.
Review: soon (I write this sentence with every book I finish hoping that I will write the review soon; but “soon” in my dictionary means when I have the mood for it, which is never. Smh lol)
lovelyyghxst's review against another edition
3.0
Personally, I enjoyed a lot of her pieces of writing complied here. Many I recognized from before in my English literature classes growing up. But I have to say I didn’t find everything she wrote as interesting, since of course the language and style wasn’t something I easily understood to enjoy. I’d definitely want to return to look at some of her works more in depth, for I’m sure with some analysis, her charm would be more obvious.
The topics on love, interpersonal relationships, death, and even her portrayal of nature were far more interesting when you considered her own life in relating to her writing.
The topics on love, interpersonal relationships, death, and even her portrayal of nature were far more interesting when you considered her own life in relating to her writing.
kenziem's review against another edition
5.0
Some absolutely beautiful poetry. Will be reading again.
ejdragonlover's review against another edition
4.0
I liked these poems, but I think it would have been better to read them individually rather than as a book. When reading them once and immediately moving on, I did not absorb all of the meaning as I could have studying them individually. I would recommend this book to someone who would like to read many poems over a period of time. There were poems on many topics: Life, beliefs, love, nature, death and time. Many of my favorites were some of the ones about nature, especially the ones describing weather. Emily Dickinson has a unique voice that can be heard in her poetry, especially in the rhythm and rhyme scheme.
skitch41's review against another edition
3.0
Emily Dickinson is considered to be one of America’s greatest poets and she has been sitting on my shelf for some time. After being inspired by this year’s Poetry Month, which happens every April, I decided to dust this book off and finally give it a try. On the whole, I enjoyed it. Ms. Dickinson could be very witty and poignant and her poetry could leave you restless and wanting more, as the slant rhymes and about face in many of her poems proved. But other poems could be “meh” or uninteresting too. It seems to me that some of her best and wittiest poems were her shorter ones. However, the longer her poetry got, the less inclined I was to like it. Still, I didn’t hate this book and I believe this was a good collection to start with as I try to incorporate more poetry into my everyday reading life.
torts's review against another edition
3.0
I got bored with some of her nature poems, but the ones about love and death generally held my interest. I enjoy the poetry most when it has interesting grammatical constructions, enjambment, vague pronouns, and cryptic metaphors. But the religious fanaticism and longer poems frustrate and bore me. I think angst makes for better poetry than devotion*.
*Religious devotion. The romantic devotion (which tends to be angsty...) I like.
*Religious devotion. The romantic devotion (which tends to be angsty...) I like.