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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 165.
A Wounded Deer -- leaps highest
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 3 of 3, added on February 28th, 2006 at 1:12 PM.
I've never posted comments before but saying that this poem is nonsense is sacrilegeous!
"A wounded deer leaps highest" what a great image to express the leap of a great poet that had felt wounded by the world. (Dickinson to Higgins: "Thanks for the surgery, I am circular / "This is a letter to the world that never wrote to me", etc.). Much more could be said about it but just as food for thought -- for those who take literature and poetry seriously -- think about Lavinia (Titus Andronicus) and think about the proverbial wounded deer withdrawing to die. Think about "deer" and "dear".
Cris Smith from Brazil
Comment 2 of 3, added on January 24th, 2006 at 4:32 AM.
Well, it may seem incoherent, but it still could pass for extremely early (by about 130 years) hell metal! I can easily imagine someone like Exodus, King Diamond or maybe even Demon Burger (Dimmu Borgir) grunting these lyrics over a sludgy backdrop of evil, chugging dropped-D riffs ... then switching to squealing Flying-V solos over a double-bass blast beat in the choruses ... numsane?
Mike Detwiler from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on January 4th, 2006 at 2:41 PM.
this poem makes no sense at all
brian swenson from United States
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I've never posted comments before but saying that this poem is nonsense is sacrilegeous!
"A wounded deer leaps highest" what a great image to express the leap of a great poet that had felt wounded by the world. (Dickinson to Higgins: "Thanks for the surgery, I am circular / "This is a letter to the world that never wrote to me", etc.). Much more could be said about it but just as food for thought -- for those who take literature and poetry seriously -- think about Lavinia (Titus Andronicus) and think about the proverbial wounded deer withdrawing to die. Think about "deer" and "dear".
Cris Smith from Brazil