The Emily Dickinson Fan Club

[Beren3000]

Originally Posted by sun-star

Dickinson was a recluse, so isn't it right that her fans should be a little reticent?

how dare you!


Anyway, BUMP!
How about trying to interpret this poem (I can't make any sense out of it):

I know that he exists
Somewhere, in silence.
He has hid his rare life
From our gross eyes.

'Tis an instant's play,
'Tis a fond ambush,
Just to make bliss
Earn her own surprise!

But should the play
Prove piercing earnest,
Should the glee glaze
In death's stiff stare,

Would not the fun
Look too expensive?
Would not the jest
Have crawled too far?