Yesterday I mentioned a letter from Emily Dickinson to her friend and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson in which she enclosed four poems. In the letter she referred to the enclosed poems as follows:
“I send you a Gale, and an Epitaph – and a Word to a Friend, and a Blue Bird, for Mrs. Higginson. Excuse them if they are untrue –”
Sooo…this morning I present you with a Gale, an Epitaph, a word to a Friend and a Blue Bird.
The “gale” is the poem “It sounded as if the streets were running.”
The Epitaph is “She laid her docile Crescent down.”
The word to a Friend is “I have no life but this,” and the Blue Bird is “After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside.”
“I send you a Gale, and an Epitaph – and a Word to a Friend, and a Blue Bird, for Mrs. Higginson. Excuse them if they are untrue –”
Sooo…this morning I present you with a Gale, an Epitaph, a word to a Friend and a Blue Bird.
The “gale” is the poem “It sounded as if the streets were running.”
The Epitaph is “She laid her docile Crescent down.”
The word to a Friend is “I have no life but this,” and the Blue Bird is “After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside.”
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