Emily_Dickinson_And_The_Exalted_Poet

Emily Dickinson And The Exalted Poet Emily Dickinson and The Exalted Poet The few, the proud, the poets. Poets, the select few who are so exalted by their art they consider it a mystical experience that in one poem, Emily Dickinson raises them above such trivial notions as the sun, the summer, and even the heaven of God. Though her poems don’t all center around the glory of the poet, the few that do juxtapose the poetic mission and such broad concepts as religion and her own personal dogma. Poems 569 and 1129 (“I reckon ‒ when I count at all‒” and “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant‒” respectively) like any good poetry, may be read a number of ways, most directly as a commentary on the art of poetry, with underlying commentary concerning the aforementioned issues. Poem 569 “I reckon . . . ” ranks poetry and poets above all else in the first stanza. She blatantly prioritizes poets over nature and religion, going so far as to call the latter a “needless show.” Dickinson clearly takes issue with religion, no doubt due to a strict religious upbringing the Norton Anthology describes as reminiscent of Jonathan Edwards. This poem, written poem, dickinson, truth, poet, poetry, circuit, religion, poetic, message, however, word, slant, seems, poets, poems, even, rhyme, emily, blindness, 569, mission, heaven, god, circumference, christ, ability, writes, whole, ways, tell, reader, meter, lines, line, later