Two years ago, did you realize that you needed a bit of Dickinson in your daily life? Today is the second anniversary of my #DickinsonDaily posts (on Counter Social) – and there’s still so much more to come!
Yesterday, I posted “The fairest home I ever knew” from the section of “Poems Incomplete or Unfinished” in Millicent Todd Bianchi’s 1945 edition of previously unpublished poems by Dickinson, “Bolts of Melody.”
Today I have “My reward for being was this,” another poem from Bianchi’s listing of “Poems Incomplete or Unfinished.” Coincidentally, one version of this poem uses the word “election,” a topic I wrote about recently, HERE.
Below is the poem as it appears in Bolts of Melody along with Bianchi’s notes as to why she considered this “unfinished.”
Yesterday, I posted “The fairest home I ever knew” from the section of “Poems Incomplete or Unfinished” in Millicent Todd Bianchi’s 1945 edition of previously unpublished poems by Dickinson, “Bolts of Melody.”
Today I have “My reward for being was this,” another poem from Bianchi’s listing of “Poems Incomplete or Unfinished.” Coincidentally, one version of this poem uses the word “election,” a topic I wrote about recently, HERE.
Below is the poem as it appears in Bolts of Melody along with Bianchi’s notes as to why she considered this “unfinished.”
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I love what Bianchi added at the end of her notes, “here is raw material on the way to becoming a great poem.”
The versions were written several years apart, and I suspect Dickinson was not completely satisfied with the end product and that she was still mulling over word choices, images, and lines to develop the poem.
What do you think? Which version do you prefer?
Below are the versions of the poem as they appear in the Johnson, Franklin and Miller editions.
The versions were written several years apart, and I suspect Dickinson was not completely satisfied with the end product and that she was still mulling over word choices, images, and lines to develop the poem.
What do you think? Which version do you prefer?
Below are the versions of the poem as they appear in the Johnson, Franklin and Miller editions.
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