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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1122.
'Tis my first night beneath the Sun
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Sep 15 2007
Comment 1 of 1, added on September 15th, 2007 at 3:25 PM.
Vintage Emily Dickinson! I love reading this poem, but find it difficult to completely decipher, especially with the syntax, and the unnatural placement of physical entities outside their usual positions in the "real scheme" of things, i.e., beneath the sun at night, and above the sun, etc. In some ways it is like reading Wallace Stevens---no need to always know exactly what the poem means, but can be enjoyed for the sheer beauty of its imaginative expressions.
art chapman
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Vintage Emily Dickinson! I love reading this poem, but find it difficult to completely decipher, especially with the syntax, and the unnatural placement of physical entities outside their usual positions in the "real scheme" of things, i.e., beneath the sun at night, and above the sun, etc. In some ways it is like reading Wallace Stevens---no need to always know exactly what the poem means, but can be enjoyed for the sheer beauty of its imaginative expressions.
art chapman