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:
SEE CORRECTION BELOW re: MARS
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 | 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." |