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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
“Wild nights - Wild nights!”, Emily Dickinson
Wild nights - Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!
Written in 1861, and first published in the posthumous Poems: Second Series (1891) despite the misgivings of its editor, who feared some people might misread it as erotic. (Narrator: it’s totally erotic.) With said editor’s repunctuation and relineation, it looked like this.
---L.
Subject quote from “O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?,” from Twelfth Night II.3, William Shakespeare—speaking of texts that get repunctuated by editors.
“Wild nights - Wild nights!”, Emily Dickinson
Wild nights - Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!
Written in 1861, and first published in the posthumous Poems: Second Series (1891) despite the misgivings of its editor, who feared some people might misread it as erotic. (Narrator: it’s totally erotic.) With said editor’s repunctuation and relineation, it looked like this.
---L.
Subject quote from “O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?,” from Twelfth Night II.3, William Shakespeare—speaking of texts that get repunctuated by editors.
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Date: 25 September 2023 03:39 pm (UTC)The second stanza really hits me--how the heart yearns not to be at port, sometimes...
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Date: 25 September 2023 06:13 pm (UTC)I really like the precision strike that is "luxury."
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Date: 25 September 2023 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 September 2023 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 September 2023 02:42 pm (UTC)