Creative Work

Haven't been here in a while, and I do have an explanation. As an assignment for my class, we (as in all of the students separately) have to come up with some form of "creative work" that is influenced by the work of Emily Dickinson. This can be anything; song, dance, poetry of your own, a film, basically anything that you can do to express your creativity, and the influence that Dickinson has had on your work. I decided to do the video, and have been using every free second of the last week to the effect. For the first few days I was trying different concepts with the filming, along with a vast number of Dickinson's poems, and my results were turning out to be less than satisfactory. Last night however, I had a break-through, and one of the techniques I tried ended up turning out perfectly. Of course I have a complaint about my work; I have this thing about demanding that my own things can always be better. I'm afraid that the one I liked turned out far too dark, but my friend who is editing for me says he can work with that to make it better. So, my small film is almost done, and will be long before I present on Tuesday.

Big ole' Paper

Last night I started work on my research paper for my Emily Dickinson class. It's on the fascicle's, in the sense that you pick a poem, and compare it to the rest of the fascicle it exists in using it's themes and imagery. I have chosen fascicle #20, and poem #401 in the franklin edition which starts out as "Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?" From this poem I am going to discuss Dickinson's recurring themes of anti religious sentiment, and her own case of extreme self-reliance. More on my progress as it happens.

October 15th

Today in my major author class on Emily Dickinson we discussed her fascicle #16. This fascicle contains mainly poems that have to do with Dickinson's concept of death and what may lay beyond it. This fascicle also contains poem #337 "of nearness to her sundered things" which contains the reference of Dickinson to a "mouldering playmate" which I personally imagine as Dickinson sitting there playing at a tea party or something with this across the table from her. In the poem it seems as if she is referring to a playmate who has passed on, and then comes back from the dead, but is changed by death, because death itself leaves a very lasting mark. All in all this was an enjoyable fascicle, but I do not think I'm going to go in this direction with my paper. I mean, Dickinson has a lot of darker material, but this is a bunch of it all crammed together.....it seems a bit much.

Intro: a little ink

As this is my first post, I decided to kick things off with a bang. One of my co-workers said the other day that it is only a certain type of person who would think to get a tattoo. She then went on to list the many (and none desirable) attributes of such people. After listening to my co-workers badmouth tattoos as being skin decoration for bikers, drug addicts, rock stars, and prostitutes (among allusions to combinations of these) I politely informed her that not all tattoo fans are of that caliber. Most of us do read, and some of us have even decided to get things from books put onto our skin permanently, mostly due to love of the work. And this got me to thinking: What about the lovers of Dickinson's work? Surely I would be able to find some pics of people who loved her work enough to immortalize it on skin.......and I was not disappointed.
Dickinson Tattoo #1
Dickinson Tattoo #2
Dickinson Tattoo #3
For those interested in more information, that first link is a full printing of "How happy is the little Stone" which falls in the Franklin Edition of her work at #1570. The second and third links are none other than the Belle of Amherst herself.