Recently I went down a rabbit hole – or really, I was sucked into an astronomical black hole – after seeing a friend’s photograph of the constellation Orion in the night sky.
I checked to see if Dickinson ever referenced “Orion” in any of her poems, and in fact, she did. “Orion” appears in the stand-alone poem “Follow wise Orion” in Johnson’s “Complete Poems” of Dickinson but not in Franklin’s, and “Orion” appears as part of the poem “Echo has no magistrate” in Franklin’s compilation of Dickinson’s poems but not in Johnson’s.
When exploring these poems, I found various and interesting analyses, a pithy reminder that “a pear to the wise is sufficient,” and an “unobtrusive blossom.” For my recent posts on these lines, click HERE.
One last – and lengthy – article I’d like to share is “Emily Dickinson's Echology: A Listener ' s Reconceptualization of Citizenship, Consciousness, and the World,” a dissertation submitted by Beth Ann Staley at West Virginia University.
Below is the opening paragraph to Ms. Staley’s abstract about the paper.
I checked to see if Dickinson ever referenced “Orion” in any of her poems, and in fact, she did. “Orion” appears in the stand-alone poem “Follow wise Orion” in Johnson’s “Complete Poems” of Dickinson but not in Franklin’s, and “Orion” appears as part of the poem “Echo has no magistrate” in Franklin’s compilation of Dickinson’s poems but not in Johnson’s.
When exploring these poems, I found various and interesting analyses, a pithy reminder that “a pear to the wise is sufficient,” and an “unobtrusive blossom.” For my recent posts on these lines, click HERE.
One last – and lengthy – article I’d like to share is “Emily Dickinson's Echology: A Listener ' s Reconceptualization of Citizenship, Consciousness, and the World,” a dissertation submitted by Beth Ann Staley at West Virginia University.
Below is the opening paragraph to Ms. Staley’s abstract about the paper.
The link to the full paper is HERE.
If you don’t have time to read the entire dissertation, scroll down to page 31 for her discussion on the first stanza of “Echo has no magistrate,” and then to page 33 for her thoughts on the second stanza (where Orion shows up).
If you don’t have time to read the entire dissertation, scroll down to page 31 for her discussion on the first stanza of “Echo has no magistrate,” and then to page 33 for her thoughts on the second stanza (where Orion shows up).
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