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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1417.
How Human Nature dotes
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day:
Mar 3 2005
Comment 1 of 1, added on May 6th, 2005 at 12:32 PM.
The first two stanzas are of greatest interest to me. They encapsulate in very fundamental language the concept of "looking for THE ANSWER". The usual quips about one meets in life, such as "curiosity killed the cat" and "too many questions" are so deftly by-passed. All of the questions of humanity are neatly encompassed, from the nature of meaning to who is sleeping with whom. The final verse is inevitable but somehow to me is not quite as powerful. It does, however, make it clear that none of us can deny this "will to question". I will end my wordy comment by suggesting an analogy to Nietzsche's Will to Power and Eternal Recurrance.
Stewart Denslow from United States
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The first two stanzas are of greatest interest to me. They encapsulate in very fundamental language the concept of "looking for THE ANSWER". The usual quips about one meets in life, such as "curiosity killed the cat" and "too many questions" are so deftly by-passed. All of the questions of humanity are neatly encompassed, from the nature of meaning to who is sleeping with whom. The final verse is inevitable but somehow to me is not quite as powerful. It does, however, make it clear that none of us can deny this "will to question". I will end my wordy comment by suggesting an analogy to Nietzsche's Will to Power and Eternal Recurrance.
Stewart Denslow from United States