| My "Fuck You" post to Trump, the GQP and the MAGAts is up on threads, so more on that later. For now, a bit of normalcy to take your mind off the absurd abnormalcy of giving the keys to the house to a known criminal. Yesterday was National Donut (or Doughnut) Day, and no surprise – Emily Dickinson never used the word “donut” (or “doughnut”) in any of her poems. However, she did use the word “dough” in one poem – at least in one variation of the poem. |  |
The poem “The Wind begun to knead the grass,” found in the Johnson edition of Dickinson’s poems, includes the word “dough.” However, another version of the poem, found in both the Franklin and Miller editions with the altered first line “The Wind begun to rock the Grass”, does not include the word “dough.”
The Franklin variorum edition includes this information about the poem: “Manuscripts: Five (one lost), variant, about 1864, 1866, 1873, and 1883. ED’s revisions spanned nearly two decades, yielding five combinations of readings in as many fair copies.”
Franklin’s discussion of the poem and its five variations covers six pages. Included in his analysis is an interesting chart that lists the poem’s lines listed down the left, and the names of those who received copies of the poems across the top. Then, the words in the diagram provide a road map of sorts as to the word choices used within the version each person received.
See below for the versions as they appear in Johnson, Franklin, and Miller.
The Franklin variorum edition includes this information about the poem: “Manuscripts: Five (one lost), variant, about 1864, 1866, 1873, and 1883. ED’s revisions spanned nearly two decades, yielding five combinations of readings in as many fair copies.”
Franklin’s discussion of the poem and its five variations covers six pages. Included in his analysis is an interesting chart that lists the poem’s lines listed down the left, and the names of those who received copies of the poems across the top. Then, the words in the diagram provide a road map of sorts as to the word choices used within the version each person received.
See below for the versions as they appear in Johnson, Franklin, and Miller.
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Miller’s edition includes this note: “Sent to ED or the Hollands (variant) c. 1864, to SD (variant) c. 1866, to TWH (lost, transcribed variant) c. 1873, and to Thomas Niles (variant) April 1883, called ‘a Thunder Storm’”
Below is Franklin's chart from his variorum edition:
Below is Franklin's chart from his variorum edition:
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