'Bogsville'

Poem XXVII

"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us-- don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.

"How dreary to be sombody!
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog."


Centenary Edition (page 15), Little & Brown, Boston 1930
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Poem XXVII

"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us-- don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.

"How dreary to be sombody!
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog."


Centenary Edition (page 15), Little & Brown, Boston 1930
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)

Originally posted by Rapidfyre
Uh huh. And that is useful, entertaining, or interesting in what way?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Poem XXVII

"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us-- don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.

"How dreary to be sombody!
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog."


Centenary Edition (page 15), Little & Brown, Boston 1930
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)

Originally posted by Sunburnt
I have never liked her poetry.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Live and let live. To each his/her own.
Ever figure out what it was you disliked?

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Her poetry.

😕

P-

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Well, hard to say much less explain understatement
to the unititiated but maybe somewhat along the lines
of Mr Rapid who is much "too cool to write a profile."

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Perspicacious, brilliant deduction.

Guess Emily really was on the money

and ahead of her time.


Edit: Most folks dislike things they have no
adequate frame of reference for or, if they do,
choose not to appreciate or fail to understand.

Edit #2: Such as nouvelle or haute cuisine... 🙂

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Perspicacious, brilliant deduction.

Guess Emily really was on the money

and ahead of her time.


Edit: Most folks dislike things they have no
adequate frame of reference for or, if they do,
choose not to appreciate or fail to understand.

Edit #2: Such as nouvelle or haute cuisine... 🙂

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,
Too bright for our infirm delight,
The truth's superb surprise.

As lightning to the children eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.


--Emily Dickinson

Originally posted by Rapidfyre
well yeah.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,
Too bright for our infirm delight,
The truth's superb surprise.

As lightning to the children eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.


--Emily Dickinson

Originally posted by smw6869
Are you sure you're not E. E. Cummings?

GRANNY.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Live and let live. To each his/her own.
Ever figure out what it was you disliked?