Poems (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Emily Dickinson

Poems (Shambhala Pocket Classics) Reviews

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  Belinda Vlasbaard

  5 stars english hardcover
  Must read for school.
  But the poems did enchant me reading them near the canal in England.
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  Asma

  Oh lord what a beauty!
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  Ayesha Fayyaz

  In early days of nanowripo (Ah! I don't think I have spelled it correctly), one day was dedicated to Emily Dickenson's poetry style and I was very impressed to read her one of the famous poems: Hope is the thing with feathers. Now having read pretty much of them, I think she has an amazing art to describe a simple noun like 'patience, hope, smile, pain' in a variety of wonderful ways. The way she describes 'expanded time and smile's exertion' is mind blowing. Anyone who love poetry must try reading her work once. Some of the poems were very lame and over sentimental and depicted over frustration! Of course I didn't like those.
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  Mina Ajam

  SHE IS AMAZING !! -Selected Poems-
  -That it will never come again
  -Forever is composed of nows
  -Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
  -A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day
  -Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
  -I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine
  
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  ZaRi

  "Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!
  The Apple on the Tree—
  Provided it do hopeless—hang—
  That—"He aven" is—to Me!
  
  The Color, on the Cruising Cloud—
  The interdicted Land—
  Behind the Hill—the House behind—
  There—Paradise—is found!
  
  Her teasing Purples—Afternoons—
  The credulous—decoy—
  Enamored—of the Conjuror—
  That spurned us—Yesterday!
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  ale

  read half of it and i’m watching dickinson rn 🤕
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  Iza bzu

  nie umiem oceniać poezji, ale buja
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  Casey

  I now understand why Emily Dickinson is so praised and is highly regarded. Her work is absolutely amazing! I really want to read a lot more poetry, as I’ve read a lot of poems and listened to a lot of spoken word but I haven’t read many poetry collections and I want to change that. I love poetry as a medium to express raw and personal ideas, struggles etc. So in the future you will definitely be seeing me read more poetry.
  
  Dickinson’s poetry feels so timeless and What I think makes her work so timeless is that she focus on the emotion rather than the experience. What I mean is that everyone throughout history has felt fear, angry, happiness etc. but what causes those emotions is different throughout history as it’s so subjective to the person. Dickinson captures emotions so beautifully. For example her poem titled Hope, which has her famous line “hope is the thing with feathers”, she describes the abstract concept of hope rather than writing what gives her hope. I have honestly read that poem at least 20 times, it’s just so good.
  
  I am no poetry expert by any means, but I honestly have nothing bad/ constructive to say, sure there are some poems that I didn’t like or didn’t know what they trying to say. However, the vast majority of them were beautiful, relatable and meaningful.
  
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  Giancarlo Rogatis

  Conobbi Emily Dickinson alle superiori, vidi la sua foto più celebre sul libro di antologia e vi erano tre o quattro (ora non ricordo) sue poesie. Non la studiammo mai perché l'insegnante seguiva il programma a modo suo, ma lessi e rilessi la sua biografia e quelle poche poesie più volte e guardavo intensamente quella foto. Ancor'oggi non so il perché.
  A distanza di anni sono riuscito a leggere molte delle sue opere e ammetto che quel fascino che esercitava non era semplice curiosità, perché ho divorato questo libro e vorrei entrare in possesso di tutte le sue opere (so che ha scritto oltre 1700 poesie) perché la criptica semplicità con cui esprime ciò che sente, il suo amore per la natura, il suo distacco verso i dogmi puritani e i sentimenti verso l'uomo che amava... si percepiscono e sono sintomo di un'anima sensibile e raffinata nella sua semplicità, conscia delle bellezze e brutture della vita nonostante la sua autoclausura.
  È da poco che mi sto appassionando alla poesia, iniziando dai romantici inglesi, ma questa poetessa americana mi ha sempre affascinato e ne consiglio la lettura a tutti.
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  mariana

  “𝓐𝓼 𝓲𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷
  𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓮,
  𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓪 𝓴𝓮𝔂;
  𝓐𝓷𝓭 '𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽, 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮,
  
  𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓭,
  𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼, 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭,
  𝓞𝓻 𝓰𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼, 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓾𝓶𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓼,
  𝓡𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭.”
  
  
  I love the style of Emily's poems so much, they are very deep and with a good dose of melancholy, which becomes more realistic and you can imagine writing those passages.
  It is something impressive, I’m truly impressed. I’ve started reading her poems more, and I’m glad I did, because if I didn’t, I would always think I hated poems, but everything changed when I watched Dickison on Apple+ , and it encouraged me to read more about their works, and I admit that I made a great choice.
  
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  Maureen

  I had to read a book of poetry for a reading challenge this year. I admit to not being especially savvy when it comes to understanding the true meaning of many poems, but I took poetry in college, and I had a done decent job of explicating "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," so I figured what the heck. Also, my physician once told me that she had experienced gnosis, and actually wrote a book of his own regarding her spirituality and the Bible, or something along those lines. A lot of it is still barely understandable to me, but I did bookmark a number of poems that I feel I may be able to better understand and appreciate if I go back and re-read them, you know, 10 or 20 times....
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  Doug

  What I learned: I don't get it. I understand it was probably still huge to see a woman poet in her time about fifty years after Jane Austen, but I just don't see anything spectacular in this poetry! Topically: the styles don't do the ideas justice. As for the executions--boring. I want to be led and teased, dipped and climaxed; her poems all feel cut by the same carving of safe pacing and safe, prominently religious, ideas. They're quick, which is a plus--usually. They rhyme, which is definitely favoured by me. But her writing is just not my cup of tea.
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  Trudy

  Another of my mother's favorite poets. I love Emily Dickinson because she writes personally, simply, yet beautifully descriptive. I recommend her to all hungering souls! One quoted often by Mom is "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..." For musicians, some of her poems have been set in trio arrangements. Lots of fun to sing!
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  Patrice Miller

  While not a definitive collection by any means, this collection is very lovingly edited. Some of Dickinson's more interesting meditations on pain, time, and the body are featured in here, and their arrangement creates a lovely conversation. It's small size makes it the perfect travel companion. My edition is dog-eared, pencil-lined, and well-worn.
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  bianca

  'I many times thought Peace had come
  When Peace was far away -
  As Wrecked Men - deem they sight the Land -
  At Centre of the Sea -
  
  And struggle slacker - but to prove
  As hopelessly as I -
  How many the fictitious Shores
  Before the Harbor be -'
  
  Yes, yes, yes. This is the first poetry book I've read, and I absolutely loved it. Gave me chills all down my spine over and over.
  
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  Steve

  when i keep this book in my back pocket, it looks like i own a wallet. brenda hillman did a fine job of selecting ms. dickinson's poems. this is the most beat-up and worn-out book i own, but i'm still holding out hope it lasts forever.
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  Amy

  Because everyone could use a little of this in their pocket:
  
  TO make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
  One clover, and a bee,
  And revery.
  The revery alone will do
  If bees are few.
  
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  Tamara

  Again, doesn't have to be this edition, but my Dickenson and my Wordsworth sit side by side on my shelf of necessary-to-living books. Her poetry is the most insightful and soul-wrenching use of language, and it moves me deeply.
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  Philip Jenks

  the pocket classic does violence to Dickinson. One can safely say that anyone providing a positive review of this is actively harming poetry with thoughtlessness. This symbolizes what kills writing, and has no resemblance to the author's poems. Shelve it under pulp or "recycle bin."
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  Mila Temnyalova

  "I YEARS had been from home" and "I MEASURE every grief I meet" are my all-time Dickinson favourites.
  
  
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  I.W.Toole

  Simplemente maravillosa. Si bien es cierto que hay poemas que todavía me cuesta entender y a medida que han ido estudiando la figura y la vida de Emily Dickinson a través de sus cartas he podido coger un poco más sus significados, no resta su talento y el corazón que ponía al escribir.
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  Mike

  Setting Sail
  
  Exultation is the going
  Of an inland soul to sea,
  Past the houses, past the headlands,
  Into deep eternity!
  
  Bred as we, among the mountains,
  Can the sailor understand
  The divine intoxication
  Of the first league out from land?
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  R.M.

  I remember one of the reviews said it was like jewels. It is. When I read it each poem was like this little jewel that you could just cherish. Absolutely loved it!
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  Brian

  Simply, the best female poet of the 19th Century.
  
  Perhaps, the best POET of the 19th Century?
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  Stefani

  This is the best collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry that I have ever found. Though I suggest using a scripture pencil when making notes on the pages, they tend to bleed more than regular pages.