Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Dickinson
ISBN: 9798882352027

Author: Emily Dickinson

Narrator: Catherine Leer

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Robert Larson

Published: 07/28/2024

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Synopsis

Emily Dickinson's poems offer a profound exploration of life, death, nature, and love through a unique poetic lens. Her reclusiveness fostered a distinctive voice, marked by brevity and vivid imagery. Dickinson's work invites readers to contemplate the complexities of existence, experiencing both solace and challenge.

About Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house, and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. Her poetry reflects her loneliness, and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riya on January 07, 2021

"I shall someday take wings, Fly around, as often petals do When free in the air, And you dear one, Just the sad reminant of a root, Must lie behind, sans pride, On double beds And grieve." (Lines from the poem POEM :I SHALL SOME DAY) Selected poems by Kamala Das, a collection of poem which speaks about wom......more

Goodreads review by Nasar on February 17, 2023

This is the only kind of transcendence I know, have felt and continue to long for over and over. 'Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.' I'll just share some of the best ones here, to invite you all into the palace of her imagination adorned with the music of words: DEATH IS SO MEDIOCRE Life......more

Goodreads review by Lulu on November 05, 2024

Excellent poems. 10/10 would recommend to a friend.......more

Goodreads review by Manaswita on January 15, 2022

One of my favorite poets! I consider it a privilege to have come across and read her work!......more

Goodreads review by Raylene on May 01, 2019

Don't read much poetry. These were baby steps. I could feel her anguish in her writings about men - her words in some poems cast a spell on me. Look forward to reading more of her work.......more