#i dont like the patronizing usage of ''Emily'' like theyre explaining something to a child | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lollytea · 4 months ago

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I really love hope is a thing with feathers and I also really LOVE the hope as a sewer rat poem too but I wish it was not explicity written as "well actually" against Dickinson asgvsjnk. The imagery is SO GOOD but this whole vibe of "my metaphor is better than your metaphor" kinda sours it for me

#i dont like the patronizing usage of ''Emily'' like theyre explaining something to a child #admittedly dickinson has been dead for over a century so its probably huge deal to talk about her flippantly in terms of poetry #this is just me personally. how i feel about it #i dont like her being namedropped like that #it has this energy of ''haha lemme school this bitch''#when the poem itself was never supposed to see the light of day. she never consented to it being published. girl was 5 years in the grave #it feels like making fun of somebodys diary #i also dont like how it kinda makes fun of dickinson's imagery of hope as something ''beautiful delicate'' thing #i always interpreted as it is told. a little bird. i pictured a fat fluffy thing like the ones i see outside my window #ive known them to be stubborn and mischivious #when we leave out seeds on the lawn the little ones are always bullied away by the crows and magpies #but they keep trying. theyll attempt to sneak over and peck away before the crows notice them #they ARE optimistic and resilient little things. tougher than they look #so i always found the metaphor apt #sewer rat also fits just as well. but i think it depends on the angle from how youre looking at it #so i dont like this vibe of ''it should be more RAW it should be UGLIER'' cuz even tho i love that style of writing #it just feels like unnecessary one-upping here #especially considering dickinson was severely depressed and tons of her poems reflect it #god forbid she dabble around with the occasional light hearted poem about seeing hope as a silly little bird #asgsjsnk sorry im not trying to make a statement or anything. ill delete this later probably

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