In class on Tuesday, we discussed the poem in which Dickinson describes things that she does and does not want to be or do. This poem really left me thinking “who is Emily Dickinson?”. Given the nature of her life and the lack of personal information we have about her, besides the letters that she sent to others, it is interesting to get a deeper look into her own wants and desires beyond what we can see in the personality that she presents to others. I am interested to see what other details about her wants, desires, and personality we will get as we continue reading more of her poems, particularly as they move forward into later periods of her life.
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I so badly want to meet her… when we were doing the Walt Whitman Archive project, I found a little novel I believe titled “Conversations with Walt Whitman,” where a man (I cannot remember his name) conversed with Whitman in his Camden home in the latter years of his life. There were many quotes seemingly said directly from Whitman’s lips… real accounts of real conversations. This definitely takes away the mystery of Whitman, and for me only emphasizes the mystery of Dickinson. There’s so little information about her demeanor compared to Whitman. I wish there was even one more photo of her!