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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)

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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)
Uh huh. And that is useful, entertaining, or interesting in what way?

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

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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)
I have never liked her poetry.

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Originally posted by Sunburnt
I have never liked her poetry.
Live and let live. To each his/her own.
Ever figure out what it was you disliked?

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

😕

P-

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Her poetry.

😕

P-
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... 🙂

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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."
well yeah.

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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... 🙂
Are you sure you're not E. E. Cummings?

GRANNY.

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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... 🙂
You misspelled Monkey.

GRANNY.

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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

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Originally posted by Rapidfyre
well yeah.
Zorba the Greek with too much zest for life to hide, bounded naked

from the waves to the beach... 'Life is worth more than a fig leaf'.

Maybe some folks need to ask themselves, 'Why am I hiding?'

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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
"The truth must dazzle gradually..."

Never noticed that killer line before.

Thanks, Andy.

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

GRANNY.
Maybe you already know e.e.cummings' free verse poem

tiltled "nobody loses all the time" about his Uncle Sol.

If not, please check it out. What a perfect poetic tribute

to chess players. If more than one finger could type, I'd be

tempted to memoralize the sentiment in an RHP Thread.

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

Just not inspiring, and I'm easy!