Two days ago, I shared Dickinson’s “A drunkard cannot meet a cork” along with a site that featured it, “Love & Conquest, The Erotics of Colonial Discourse in Emily Dickinson’s Poems & Letters’ (HERE).
This site appears to date back to 1998, and it’s connected to something called “The Classroom Electric, Dickinson, Whitman & American Culture” (HERE), “sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE).”
Huh? What in the world is – or I suspect I should say “was” – FIPSE? I’m sure that money is now being funneled to ICE as bonuses for additional abductions and killings; however, let’s take our minds off government-sanctioned murder for now and press on with Dickinson.
I clicked on the site and found this introduction (HERE):
“The Classroom Electric is a constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites informed by cutting-edge scholarship. While each site works as a stand-alone case study useful to students and teachers, the sites also link to each other, to other resources, and to the Dickinson Electronic Archives and the Walt Whitman Archive.”
The site states that “Users may enter The Classroom Electric through a variety of portals,” particularly the “Table of Contents,” HERE. There’s a lot there to peruse, and most of the links are still active though not all. The site also states that it is “a continual work in progress,” though I don’t think that’s the case at this point – it does not seem to show signs of recent activity.
OHHHH…so weird. I did search out the US government’s FIPSE page, HERE. That then took me to the US Department of Education’s site, HERE, and I looked around a bit, but it made me feel uncomfortable. Seeing pics of that unqualified charlatan/full-time clown-woman and reading of Trump-Vance “achievements” in education made me nauseous. I just have no patience for disinformation and Don-foolery so I exited the site quickly.
Safe from McMahon’s propaganda, I perused the contents of “The Classroom Electric.” Tomorrow, I’ll share one of the links I clicked on. Today, just one last bit – that the name for “The Classroom Electric” is, of course, an allusion to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled “I Sing the Body Electric.” It’s a lengthy poem about the miracle of the human body – and some of the subject matter is outdated and startling; section 7, for example, begins…
A man’s body at auction,
(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
The poem was first published in “Leaves of Grass” in 1855 and then revised my times before Whitman died in 1892. You can read the full text HERE.
In July 1862 Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
“You speak of Mr Whitman - I never read his Book - but was told that he was disgraceful-”
The second line of Whitman’s poem states, “The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them.” That sounds pretty darn disgraceful, no? I mean …for 1862. LOL.
Dickinson's full letter is HERE.
Tomorrow, one of the links I clicked on from "The Electric Classroom," and...
SPOILER ALERT: Emily Dickinson never used the word “engirth” in any of her poems.
I clicked on the site and found this introduction (HERE):
“The Classroom Electric is a constellation of web sites on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and nineteenth-century American culture. Here users can explore images of original manuscripts, rare photographs, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters, and maps in sites informed by cutting-edge scholarship. While each site works as a stand-alone case study useful to students and teachers, the sites also link to each other, to other resources, and to the Dickinson Electronic Archives and the Walt Whitman Archive.”
The site states that “Users may enter The Classroom Electric through a variety of portals,” particularly the “Table of Contents,” HERE. There’s a lot there to peruse, and most of the links are still active though not all. The site also states that it is “a continual work in progress,” though I don’t think that’s the case at this point – it does not seem to show signs of recent activity.
OHHHH…so weird. I did search out the US government’s FIPSE page, HERE. That then took me to the US Department of Education’s site, HERE, and I looked around a bit, but it made me feel uncomfortable. Seeing pics of that unqualified charlatan/full-time clown-woman and reading of Trump-Vance “achievements” in education made me nauseous. I just have no patience for disinformation and Don-foolery so I exited the site quickly.
Safe from McMahon’s propaganda, I perused the contents of “The Classroom Electric.” Tomorrow, I’ll share one of the links I clicked on. Today, just one last bit – that the name for “The Classroom Electric” is, of course, an allusion to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled “I Sing the Body Electric.” It’s a lengthy poem about the miracle of the human body – and some of the subject matter is outdated and startling; section 7, for example, begins…
A man’s body at auction,
(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
The poem was first published in “Leaves of Grass” in 1855 and then revised my times before Whitman died in 1892. You can read the full text HERE.
In July 1862 Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
“You speak of Mr Whitman - I never read his Book - but was told that he was disgraceful-”
The second line of Whitman’s poem states, “The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them.” That sounds pretty darn disgraceful, no? I mean …for 1862. LOL.
Dickinson's full letter is HERE.
Tomorrow, one of the links I clicked on from "The Electric Classroom," and...
SPOILER ALERT: Emily Dickinson never used the word “engirth” in any of her poems.
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