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Sublime verses of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson’s poetry is fascinating. Her poetic vision and the imagery her poems create have fascinated me ever since I came across them in a small tattered book of poems I bought on the pavements near flora fountain in Bombay some 30 years ago. Emily’s poems stood out from the collection and thanks to Amazon and Kindle, the entire collection of the 1800+ poems of hers is now available for free download. Hail the INTERNET! The lines in the tag line of my blog http://words-are-weariness.blogspot.in are excerpted from one of her celebrated poems, ‘Tell all the truth---tell it slant‘. I do not have a list of favorites of hers, as during different times and in different personal contexts, different poems have appealed to me. However, what has given me sublime pleasure is the suddenness of expressions and the subtle movement that it makes deep down. How could so few words make so large an impact? Though the import of her poetry is universal and timeless, it helps to un