Emily Dickinson (7 comments)
Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 01:36 AM
Sunday's strip took a few liberties with Emily Dickinson's famous "hash-mark" punctuation. I felt bad about that, and started to think of how I would apologize to her, were she alive today. Referencing the wonderful caricature of her I've created in my mind, here's how I think it would go down:
Me: (Knocking at her front door with "I'm sorry" brownies in hand) Miss Dickinson? Hello? My name's Dave. I wanted to apologize for —
Her: G'WAY! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Me: But I —
Her: G'WON! SCOOT!
Me: But —
Her: DON'T MAKE ME COME OUTSIDE! 'CAUSE I'LL DO IT! EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN TWO WEEKS!
Me: (Walking away from her front door) Um, OK.
Her: (Immediately composing her next poem) "Death's dear-dark hand was at my door....etc, etc"
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Also! A fun fact I wasn't aware of: Thirty or so Sheldonistas dropped me a note to let me know that every Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to "Yellow Rose of Texas". Rad! I think we can all feel pretty sure that was her authorial intent! Try it with Sunday's strip!
talismanmkr
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Western Mass.
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Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 03:57 AM (
#41172)
And if you did come to her door with brownies and she turned you away, you could come down to my place, and I'd gladly accept your brownies! I live maybe 20 miles from her home in Amherst, MA.
I once read a book that was a collection of EVERY poem she'd written. Gotta say, there's a lot of misery but also so much beauty in her work as well. Very short and mystic, very similar to Haiku.
Merat
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Nov 2006
Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 04:34 AM (
#41173)
Even more fun than that is that they can all be sung to the theme from Gilligan's Island. You just have to pretend all her poems start with the doo-doo-do-doo-doo-do of the theme. It takes the depressing bite out of poems, really.
Sixter
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Jan 2008
Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 08:29 AM (
#41175)
I got half way though the Sunday strip before I realized I was singing it to the wrong song. I was singing it to the tune of "Deep In The Heart of Texas" instead of "Yellow Rose of Texas". My bad. It was funny my way.
Because I could not stop for death
*clap clap clap clap*
He kindly stopped for mEeeeee
The carriage held but just ourselves
*clap clap clap clap*
And immortallllllityyyyyyy
Dierna
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Mar 2008
Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 01:53 PM (
#41176)
*hums the poem in her head to Yellow Rose of Texas and Deep In The Heart of Texas* Well either one works just fine... Wonder if she ever visited Texas? *lol*
tobrien
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Nov 2006
Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 02:15 PM (
#41177)
nothing to do with Emily Dickinson, but I've never wanted to be a lizard as badly as I do right now.
tovias
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Virginia Beach, VA
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Oct 2007
Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 06:30 PM (
#41179)
In Response to Sixter (#41175):
Thank gosh someone else did the same thing I did. It wasn't until I was at work this afternoon that I said, wait that's not right...
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Re: Emily Dickinson (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 12:46 PM (
#41187)
"House of the Rising Run" works nicely, too...
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