Where Art thou Art?

I’ll be traveling for a few days to see six art museums in three cities – New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore – so this will be the last plog (poetry blog) post for a week.  I’ll pick back up on Monday, 6/17.

In tribute to my upcoming art museum tour, I looked up the number of times “art” appears in Dickinson’s poetry – 35 different poems – but many of them show up as the old-fashioned version of “are,” as in “Where thou art – that is home” and “Art thou the thing I wanted?” 

However, there are times when she used the word “art” to mean the visual expression of human understanding and imagination; for example, check out the use of “art” in line 23 of “I would not paint – a picture.”

Then, just for fun, I ran a Google image search on “Emily Dickinson art” – and below are just a few of the images that came up. 

See you next week!

For information on who created these wonderful works of art, click on each pic for the info.