The official poetry thread

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Is that about being buried alive? Happened a bit in the 19th century

She's thinking about her own demise. I see what you mean though with the mention of the bell as they had bells by graves back then in case someone had been buried alive and movement would ring the bell thus alerting the graveyard folk

 

[Stromovka]

Is that about being buried alive? Happened a bit in the 19th century

I think it's about mental health.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

I think it's about mental health.

It's about her mortality. No internet back then remember. People thought a lot

 

[Stromovka]

Now we just Google.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Now we just Google.

I still think a lot in between the online life. I'm some asshole. I actually don't Google a lot unless it's a spelling or something.

 

[Stromovka]

I still think a lot in between the online life. I'm some asshole. I actually don't Google a lot unless it's a spelling or something.

Actually, checking spelling accounts for 25% of my Googling.

 

[AlBidet]

Another favourite

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening​

By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

There's a guy I know writes way more complex poems than that. Actually there's a few. Modern day genuises

 

[AlBidet]

It's about her mortality. No internet back then remember. People thought a lot

Her fear of death and possibility of being buried alive which was prevalent at the time?

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Her fear of death and possibility of being buried alive which was prevalent at the time?

I would guess by the content of the poem it wasn't about the burying alive. She talks about a funeral objectively yet as it continues it seems she imagines her own.
You have to think about her life. No recognition back then and reclusive. She obviously it seems to me,suffered from depression which back then would have been labelled as 'hysteria'. There were women locked up for life for having heavy periods.
So it's all imbued within the context. All very interesting. This is all my own idea. We didn't cover Dickinson in the modules I did