Chapter 38 emily dickinson

I also want to talk about Emily Dickinson again.I'm afraid my remarks will offend a lot of Americans because I think she gets more praise than she deserves.She is considered America's greatest poet.However, poetry has nothing to do with nationality. Poets are citizens of heaven and do not belong to any country.When it comes to Homer, do we call him a great Greek poet?Shall we call Dante a great Italian poet?Doing so will only demean them.Nor should our judgment of poetry be affected by the circumstances of its author's life.Emily Dickinson's failed love and years of seclusion, Edgar Allan Poe's drinking and treachery to his friends did not make the poetry of the former any better nor that of the latter. inferior.If you want to read Emily Dickinson, it's best to go to her various anthologies, all of her best works are there.In those poems, her wit, sharpness, and simplicity are on display (in fact, as with most anthologies, if the selection of poems is not so stingy, it may be richer in content).However, if you read the complete works of Emily Dickinson, you will be disappointed.Her best songs were written when she allowed herself to sing freely.Their rhythms are regular and changeable, the words used can properly express the author's emotions, and the stories narrated are also extremely natural.However, Emily Dickinson's masterpieces are too few.Like Emmeline Grangerfort, she can throw off poems that are nothing.When she wrote quatrains, she always used the usual rhythms, even in the form of ballads, which made the poems very monotonous to read.This verse was not free enough, and she made it still more narrow, because she lacked a keen ear and her language was not refined.Her poetry tends to be complex, and when she tries to make it concise, she always sacrifices lyric beauty.She often writes poems with aphorisms, which should hit the world like hitting the head of a nail, but she often hits a little sideways and a little lightly.She is indeed gifted, but not brilliant.Emily Dickinson has been praised so much, but it is incomprehensible that she has so few works worthy of such praise.Poetry is the crown of literature, and we have the right to be strict with it.There will always be a great poet in America (perhaps, I think, there has been) who will let it be known that Emily Dickinson has been praised too much.