Part One: Life

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,--
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

First of all-- nice creative use of punctuation Emily. Maybe this is where I picked up my own over-use of certain types of punctuation. Here we go-- 2,000 or so poems.  I am determined to read them all and attempt to make sense of them. 

This was posted as the into to Part One: Life.

What would Emily say?

Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems during her adult life yet only a handful were published.

In 1862, she submitted four poems to The Atlantic Monthly-- the magazine's rejection of her work led her to believe the public just wouldn't care for her poetry.  She never again attempted to publish any of her work.

Emily attended Amherst Institute and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, retired to her father's house and rarely left her room. 

What would Emily say about blogging?  Would she blog? I can see her writing a blog- but definitely doing it undercover with a fake name and certainly not using her real picture.