I’ve been posting miscellaneous bits of info this past week, and here’s another – a post from September 13 from an Instagram account called @coffee_with_keats, a copy of Dickinson’s poem “The bee is not afraid of me.”
 | Earlier in the month I posted a few of Dickinson’s 100-plus poems that mention bees. That started on Labor Day when I had checked to see if Dickinson had ever used the word “labor” (she did in 11 different poems), and I posted info about two poems about bees – one of which uses the word “labor,” and the other which, in the past, has been combined with that first poem to make a single poem. Info on all of that is HERE. The poem on Instagram I referred to earlier, and the writer comments on Dickinson’s affinity for bees, is HERE. |
The Johnson edition of Dickinson’s poems show this as a two-stanza poem with four lines in each stanza – as shown in the Instagram post. The Franklin and Miller editions of Dickinson’s poetry break the second stanza into five lines: they split the first line into two:
The brooks laugh louder
When I come
What do you think Dickinson intended? See below.
The brooks laugh louder
When I come
What do you think Dickinson intended? See below.
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