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Time and Time Again

12/31/2020

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There are only a few hours left of 2020.  Tomorrow is the dawn of a new year -- and as @Reen_Machine proclaimed on Twitter, "Thank God everything will be different tomorrow."  Hmm.  In her other tweet below, methinks @Reen_Machine was being a bit facetious (in yet another tweet, she declared, "2020 went exactly as planned. I gained 500 pounds and got a customer support job!!!!!!"  Note the profusion of exclamation points -- a sure sign of waggish mockery). 
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Anyway, tonight at midnight, we shall all hold a coin, shout "Happy New Year," and sing "Auld Lang Syne."  Tomorrow, we'll consume pork and black eyed peas, and everything will be different. 

Well, maybe not.

Remember when news surfaced that an ancient Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world in 2012?   Some now think there was a discrepancy in the calendar, and the Mayan's got the number wrong.  Did they really mean 2021?

I suppose we'll know more at midnight, right?

With the few hours left in 2020, and the onset of 2021 at midnight, I wondered what times of day might be included in the poems of Emily Dickinson.  The information is below.

Below:  Emily Dickinson in her gold Rolex watch, a gift from her parents.

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Emily Dickinson used the term “o’clock” with no specified time in the poem “We pay to heaven.”  In that poem, she said, “Relate – when Neighbors die -- / At what o’clock to Heaven – they fled.”
 
In other poems, she did mention the following specific times, once each:  one o’clock, two o’clock, half-past three, four o’clock, half-past four, five o’clock, six o’clock and half-past seven.

Below are the specific times and the poems they appear in:

TIME:
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LINE:
1:00
The Clock strikes one that just struck two   ​
The Clock strikes one that just struck two   
2:00
The Clock strikes one that just struck two 
The Clock strikes one that just struck two 
3:30
At Half-past Three, a single bird 
At Half-past Three, a single bird
4:00
The birds begun at four o’clock   
The birds begun at four o’clock   
4:30
At Half-past Three, a single bird   
At Half past Four, experiment
5:00
The Day came slow – till Five o’clock    
The Day came slow – till Five o’clock    
6:00
I tie my Hat – I crease my Shawl –      
 The time ’twill be till six o’clock –
7:30
At Half-past Three, a single bird
At Half-past seven, element
Dickinson also used the words "noon" in 74 poems and "midnight" in 18 poems. 
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Below:  Time / # of P​oems in which the time is mentioned:

Noon:  74
1:00:    1
2:00:    1
3:30:    1
4:00:    1
4:30:    1
5:00:    1
6:00:    1
7:30:    1
​Midnight:  18
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For more information on other times of day mentioned in poems by Dickinson, click HERE.  

For other statistics related to word choice in Dickinson's poems, click HERE. 

​Happy New Year, one and all!  See you in 2021. 

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A Colonial Christmas

12/25/2020

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Due to the Trump virus ravaging our country, we altered our Christmas plans this year.  Our daughters were to visit (one from LA, and one from Chicago), but with the Trump Death Toll soaring and numbers of infections climbing out of control, we decided to spend time on Zoom instead. 

My wife and I, though, did drive down to colonial Williamsburg -- about a three hour drive for us -- to spend Christmas Eve there. 


We stayed at the Williamsburg Lodge, and for dinner we ate a DELICIOUS meal in our room with a to-go order from their restaurant, Sweet Tea and Barley. 

In normal years, the hotel hosts a magnificent brunch on Christmas day; alas, the Trump virus has ruined that too.  We brought the ingredients for a delectable in-room continental breakfast, and we even brought our crock pot to heat some mulled apple cider!

Below:  Doors & windows of the colonial homes and shops in Williamsburg were adorned by beautiful Christmas wreaths and swags.
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Below:  Scenes from around colonial Williamsburg.
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Below:  More wreaths from around the colonial area:
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On Christmas Eve, we also drove around the non-colonial areas of Williamsburg to check out some Christmas light displays.  There had a been a local contest, and the house below won first place.  The final two shots -- taken through our car window in the rain -- are of the 2nd place winner.  Click the images to enlarge.
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Below:  The Williamsburg Inn.

We stayed next door in the Williamsburg Lodge.  We had a wonderful room -- within steps of the colonial area -- and we ordered a Christmas Eve dinner to eat in our room.  The entire meal was delicious -- but the dessert was FANTASTIC!  : )
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Below left:  For dinner, we made ourselves a type of Mimosa -- but with cranberry juice.  Below right:  The Williamsburg Lodge's dessert called the "Mason Dixon" was a mix of New York cheesecake with Southern spice cake -- with cream cheese icing and walnuts.  Mm, mm, good!!!
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Below:  Miscellaneous poets from around Williamsburg.  NOTE:  Slide shows don't always work on Androids, so these pictures are best viewed on a laptop, an iPhone, or an iPad.
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Christmas Presence

12/23/2020

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Did Emily Dickinson ever mention Santa Claus in any of her poems?

Indeed she did.

In her poem "'Twas just this time, last year, I died," the following stanza appears:


​And would it blur the Christmas glee
My Stocking hang too high
For any Santa Claus to reach
The Altitude of me –
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Did Dickinson use other Christmas-y words in her poems?  Again -- indeed she did.
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Below:  The following Christmas-related words appear in various poems written by Emily Dickinson:
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Below:  Christmas-related terms used by Dickinson -- followed by the number of poems in which the word appears;

Elf: 1
Presents:  1
Reindeer:  1
Santa Claus : 1 
Sleigh:  1
Decorate:  2
Elves:  2
Jolly: 2
Carol:  3
Christmas:  3
Bethlehem:  4
Stockings:  5
Candles:  6
Chimney:  6
Gift:  8
Savior:  8
Merry:  10
Jesus:  16
Peace:  25
Angel:  31
Bell/Bells:  38
Joy:  42
Snow:  57
Star:  63
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Just after I posted the chart and table above, I checked on two other Christmas-related words:  "'Twas" (as in "'Twas the night before Christmas") and "Hark" (as in "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"):

Hark:  2
'Twas:  90

Oh, and I also checked on the following:

Frankincense:  0
Myrrh:  1
Gold:   36



Merry Christmas to one and all.  And in the words of Tiny Tim, "Tiptoe through the tulips!"



FOR MORE INFORMATION ON STATISTICS OF WORD USE IN THE POETRY OF DICKINSON, CLICK HERE. 
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Ice Pics

12/17/2020

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Sunset – reviews her Sapphire Regiment –

Day – drops you her Red Adieu!
Still – Clad in your Mail of ices –

     ~ Emily Dickinson
        (from "Ah Teneriffe!")
We got a little bit of snow yesterday, and a little more of ice -- but we made it through it all okay (we're just thankful we didn't lose power because that tends to happen during ice storms). 

My wife and I took a walk through the woods this morning, and I took a few pictures of ice droplets glistening in the sun.
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In The Zooms Where It Happened

12/16/2020

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Last week, on 12/10, I participated in three events in honor of Emily Dickinson's 190th birthday.  One was at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, PA, one took place at the Houghton Library at Harvard, in Boston, MA, and one was sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.  Of course, due to the need for social distancing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, all three events were provided online, and I viewed all three from home.

Below left:  A greeting from Emily Dickinson's bedroom from the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.  Alas, I do not have the host's name, but she said that the event broke the museum's record for geographic representation at one of their online programs with 35 different countries represented at this birthday celebration.

Below middle:  I didn't have any of Dickinson's Black Cake handy, so I enjoyed a freshly baked pretzel while viewing the program from the Houghton Library.

Below right:  Poet Dorianne Laux read her own poetry and selected poems by Emily Dickinson at the event sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library. 
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Left:  The celebration in Amherst opened with a performance by an Italian band called "Anais."  They sang their original song based on Emily Dickinson's poem, "I'm Nobody!  Who are you?" 

The theme of the event was "Who is your Emily Dickinson," and the program included various videos from Dickinson aficionados who spoke about their own personal connections to the poet and her poetry.  Some of the speakers recited their favorite poems by Dickinson.
Below:  The program included a flight over Amherst for an aerial view of the city, the Emily Dickinson Museum, and other sites around the town.  (One suggestion if they ever do this again:  Please have someone narrate the flight so that viewers know what they are looking at.  Fortunately, I've been to Amherst a few times, so I had a pretty good idea as to what I was seeing.)
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Left:  Pilot Jim Arnold
Right:  The rolling hills near Amherst.
Below left: An aerial shot of Amherst.
Below center:  Dickinson's Homestead (on the right) and the Evergreens (on the left).
Below right:  West Cemetery, burial site of Emily Dickinson.
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The program also included...

* Instructions to craft a collage of a color-by-number portrait of Dickinson.
* Two special guests from Apple TV's "Dickinson," the show's creator, Alena Smith, and Ella Hunt, who portrays Susan Gilbert, who would become Dickinson's sister-in-law.
* A discussion of Dickinson's quite remarkable recipe for Black Cake (the ingredients include 19 eggs and -- if I heard correctly -- five pounds of raisins). 

Some of the favorite poems recited by the fans of Dickinson:

* "Hope" is the thing with feathers

​* I died for Beauty -- but was scarce

* How happy is the little stone

* This is my letter to the World (sung to the tune of Amazing Grace by a 7th grade class in New Hampshire)


At the right:  Coincidentally, the program ended with Efrat Ben Zur's interpretation of "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" -- the same poem that inspired the group that opened the program.

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"Team Cake" from Houghton Library (& other esteemed institutions) hosted an event at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern), and the program included quiet an impressive assembly of authors, poets, professors, and more.

They also spoke with Alena Smith, creator of Apple TV's "Dickinson," and she shared a sneak peek of a scene from  Season 2.


Below:  The sneak peek into Season 2 of Apple TV's "Dickinson"  starred Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson as she prepared her 20-pound Black Cake for a baking contest to give the Amherst College Cattle Show a "generously spiced ass kicking" (and then, quipped Alena Smith, "hijinks ensued"). 
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The program's readers and guests included food historian Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate;  Abigail Weil, food writer -- and much more;  Heather Cole, curator of rare, unique, and special materials at the Brown University Library;  NPR's Nikki Silva, co-creator of "The Kitchen Sisters";  Vanessa Braganza from the Harvard English Department; Emilie Hardman, Head of Distinctive Collections for MIT Libraries; Shayla Lawson, Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College;  Rachel Syme, contributing author to "The New Yorker";  Margaret Rhee, author of a collection of poems called Love Robot; Ann Kjellberg, founding editor of Book Post;   Allison Devers, author and dealer in rare books;  author and poet Tracie Morris; and "Poet; Activist; Change-Maker," Amanda Gorman. 

The panel shared favorite poems of Dickinson's, provided some history of food from Mount Holyoke College, discussed accounts of Emily Dickinson's chores at home ("Emily did the butterfly duties of the house, and her sister Lavinia did the moth part"), and provided readings from the letters of Emily Dickinson, and more.
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The evening program sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library began with a tour of Emily Dickinson's bedroom provided by Jane Wald, the Executive Director of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. 
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The main feature of the Folger's program was poetry readings by poet Dorianne Laux, who intermingled poems of her own with poems by Emily Dickinson. 
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Many of Laux's poems were inspired by anecdotes from Dickinson's life and/or by many of her the poet's personal objects -- her basket (the very one she would fill with goodies and lower from her bedroom window to the excited children waiting below), her tea cup ("Bring me the sunset in a cup"), a clock, and more.  In one of her poems, Laux imagined speaking to the poet once she had died, and within her poem, Laux embedded all of the words from Dickinson's  "Like Brooms of steel" (below on the left).

Having seen the tour of Dickinson's room provided by Jane Wald, Laux said she was feeling inspired to write poems based on some of the other objects -- Dickinson's hurricane lamp, her sleigh bed, and of course, her white dress. 

"The objects come alive to me," said Laux, "and t
he more you get into them, the more they speak to you personally.  It's  as if Emily Dickinson is speaking to me, directly to me, through the years."

"One day..." she added, "One day I'm going to write about that dress."


By Emily Dickinson:

Like Brooms of Steel
The Snow and Wind
Had swept the Winter Street –
The House was hooked
The Sun sent out
Faint Deputies of Heat –
Where rode the Bird
The Silence tied
His ample – plodding Steed
The Apple in the Cellar snug
Was all the one that played.

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Sense of Direction

12/15/2020

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It feels shorter than a day since Emily Dickinson boarded a carriage and first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity -- but what direction is "eternity"? Is it north or south?  East or west? 

I suspect it's toward the west, since that's where the sun sets -- but who really knows.  Dickinson never said.

Anyway, speaking of directions and the the poetry of Emily Dickinson, which direction do you think Dickinson wrote about the most?  North, south, east or west? 

I checked this out at the online Emily Dickinson Archive, and the results are below.

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Dickinson used the word "compass" in 4 poems, but in only one did she mean a "compass," an instrument to locate a direction.  Three times she used the word as some form of the verb "to compass," to go around in a circular course.  Dickinson also used the word "direction" once -- but she did use north, south, east and west multiple times.
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​North:  14

South:  16

West:  28
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East:  30
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Hmm.  Maybe that carriage was heading east after all.
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Quick Succession

12/15/2020

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Last Friday, the  Supreme Court upheld the right to a free and fair election in the United States, and Trump and his MAGAts have gone ape-shit.  During Friday's Christmas party at the White House, Trump locked himself in his bedroom and refused to come out.  On Saturday, he had a meltdown on Twitter.  On Friday and Saturday, MAGAts on Parler, the Twitter-like social media platform for White Supremacists, were nuttier than a squirrel's turd.  Some of them made death threats to the Justices on the Supreme Court, and many if not most of them were caterwauling for state secession -- although the great majority of them could not spell the word -- so they ended up advocating "succession."

This craziness -- once again, proving that there is no bottom when it comes to Trump -- called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's 1853 poem, "Secession’s counted sweetest," below on the left.  Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Success is counted sweetest," below on the right. 
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Secession’s counted sweetest
By those who say, "Secede!"
To comprehend electors
Requires sore losers to concede
 
Not one of all the MAGAt morons
Who took the loss today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
 
As they, defeated, lying,
With space between their ears
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
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By Emily Dickinson:
 
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear
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Below:  Some of the calls for "succession" on Parler.
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Eat, Drink, And Be Merry

12/12/2020

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A neighbor brought some homemade cookies over today, so I made some coffee to have with them. 

The coffee reminded me that this February -- or FeBREWary as we like to call it at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum -- we will post more of Emmett Lee Dickinson's poetry about coffee -- HERE.   This will be the 9th year in a row that we have posted "28 Days of Coffee Poems." 

Of course, that made me wonder how often third cousin Emily wrote about coffee -- or tea -- or any other beverage.  So I checked out the online Emily Dickinson Archive (HERE) to see how often Dickinson's poems used words of food and drink.

The results are below.
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​When it comes to words related to eating and drinking, here's what I found (the number following the each term is how many different poems in which the word appears):
Thirst:  11
Drink:  12
Drank:  3
Drunk:  1*
Eat:  6
Ate:  ???**
Eaten: 0
Food:  9
Meal:  2
Breakfast:  7
Dinner:  3
Supper:  2
Feed:  8
​Fed 3
Banquet:  6
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* "Drunk" was used in three poems by Dickinson; however, she used it as the past participle of "drink" only once.

** Alas, I could not check the archive for "ate" because it seemed to malfunction.  Instead of pulling up entries for the word "ate," it gave me every instance where the letters "ate" appeared -- as in gATE, dATE, fascinATE, etc.  There were close to 900 entries -- so I did not check them all for the word "ate."

Although I did not check for all the various types of food that Dickinson wrote about, I did check for "bread" -- it appears in 7 poems -- and "loaf" -- it appears in 3 poems. 


Now back to the coffee, the original word that prompted this post.  I checked to see how often Dickinson wrote about coffee, tea, and other drinks -- and here is what I found:

Coffee:  1
Tea:  4
Milk: 1
Cream:  0
Brew:  3
Liquor:  6
​Sherry:  0
Wine:  17
Water:  32

While Dickinson did have numerous references to "wine" and "liquor," I did not find any mention of "margaritas" in her poetry.  However, that is not the case with her third cousin, Emmett Lee -- but I'll save that information for a later date.
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Oh -- and by the way --  since I happened to be checking the online archive for "eat" (6 poems) and "drink" (12 poems), I thought I might as well check for "merry" (10 poems).

So eat, drink, and be merry this holiday season.  Read some poetry.  And join us in FeBREWary 2021 when we post 28 more poems about coffee by Emmett Le Dickinson. 

For more statistics related to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, click HERE. 
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Appealing Colors

12/11/2020

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It's that time of year again -- when Pantone selects the "Colors of the Year" for the coming year.  I've written about Colors of the Year in the past -- click HERE and scroll down.  For 2021 Pantone has selected two colors, Illuminating and Ultimate Gray.
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The Pantone site states that the combination is "a message of happiness supported by fortitude" and that this choice of colors "gives us hope...that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit."  The Pantone site on their chosen colors is HERE.
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When I first saw the combination of colors, the palette of color looked very familiar to me.  I had seen this synthesis of shades somewhere before, this color combination of happiness and fortitude, this blend of hues that suggests hope and all that is essential to the human spirit -- but where?

​And then it hit me!
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The yellow-gray color combination was the exact mix of tones in a an artwork I had purchased in Miami in January 2019, a piece I obtained to hang in the lobby of the world headquarters of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts (DOPE) to convey a sense of hope and fortitude for our effort to rebuild the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum which burned down on New Year's Eve in 2015.

I also purchased the artwork because it called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "To own the Art taped on the wall" (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "To own the Art within the Soul" (below on the right). 

Information about my art purchase is HERE.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
To own the Art taped on the Wall
The Soul to entertain
With Duct Tape and a Banana
That Chemicals maintain
 
Is a well-nourished Circumstance
Possession is to Me
An Investment perpetual
A priceless fruit to See
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By Emily Dickinson:
 
To own the Art within the Soul
The Soul to entertain
With Silence as a Company
And Festival maintain

Is an unfurnished Circumstance
Possession is to One
As an Estate perpetual
Or a reduceless Mine.
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By the way, the artwork never made it  to the walls of the DOPE headquarters.  Alas, someone claiming to be a "performance artist" untaped my banana from the wall in the gallery in Miami -- even though it was clearly marked "SOLD" -- and ate it!!!  The legal case involving this egregious action is still working its way through the courts.

Anyway, the announcement of the Colors of the Year and my memory of my lost artistic masterpiece made me wonder if Emily Dickinson ever included the names of fruits and vegetables in her poetry -- so I looked into that tonight.

It turns out that the word "fruit" appears in 3 poems by Dickinson, and the word "vegetable" never appears.  However, she did write about specific fruits and vegetables.  The breakdown is below:
Fruit/Vegetable / # of poems in which the fruit or vegetable in mentioned in a poem by Dickinson:​

Apple:  10

Grape:  1

Strawberries:  1

Berry:  14*
Black berry:  1*
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Apricot:  1

Pumpkin:  1

Corn:  8

Pea:  1


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*Dickinson used the word "berry" in 15 poems -- but in one of them she wrote, "black berry," so I separated one entry out for "blackberry." 

​Dickinson did use the word "orange" once, but she used it as the color, not the fruit.  I did not find any use of "pear," "lemon," "lime," or "banana" -- or any other fruits. 

The only two vegetables I found used in Dickinson's poem were "corn" and "pea."  If I find others, I will update the chart above.

For more statistics on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, click HERE. 

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Celestial Body Language

12/10/2020

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I "attended" three different programs today in celebration of Emily Dickinson's 190th birthday. The first session was held at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA; the second was hosted at the Houghton Library at Harvard University in Boston; the final program this evening was sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC .   Due to the COVID pandemic, all three were offered over Zoom.   The details of the three programs are at the bottom of this post, HERE. 

I'll write about the three programs and post pics soon.  For now, though, I  just wanted to post a quick response to some discussion form this evening's program about Dickinson's poetry of light and of the sun.  I wondered how many of Dickinson's poems mentioned the sun and/or other heavenly bodies -- so I ran a quick check.

Here's what I found:

​Heavenly Body / # of Poems in Which It Appears:

Sun:  164

Earth:  58

Moon:  23

Star:  63

Other (detailed below):  18


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Here's the breakdown of the "other" in the chart above:
​Heavenly Body / # of Poems in Which It Appears:

Mercury:  1

Mars:  5

Jupiter:  1

Planet:  2

Asteroid:  1

Galaxies:  1

Constellation:  1

Arcturus:  1

Orion:  2

Pleiades:  3

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​Note:  Dickinson never used the words "Venus," "Saturn," " Neptune," "Uranus," "Pluto," or "Comet" in any of her poems.

Also, of all the zodiac signs, Dickinson used only one:  "Capricorn" appears in "It sifts from Leaden Sieves."


For more statistics on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, click HERE. 
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