Emily & an oxymoron
Emily Dickinson was a master of oxymoron. Here's one: what use would a broom made of steel (as imagined in the 1850s, before machines could make bristles out of steel) be?
It wouldn't be flexible. It would be heavy.
What mental pictures do you find in this little imagist poem?
Like Brooms of Steel (1252)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
Like Brooms of Steel The Snow and Wind Had swept the Winter Street - The House was hooked The Sun sent out Faint Deputies of Heat - Where rode the Bird The Silence tied His ample - plodding Steed The Apple in the Cellar snug Was all the one that played.
Winter Street Scene (Téli városrészlet),oil on canvas by Antal Berkes
It wouldn't be flexible. It would be heavy.
What mental pictures do you find in this little imagist poem?
Like Brooms of Steel (1252)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
Like Brooms of Steel The Snow and Wind Had swept the Winter Street - The House was hooked The Sun sent out Faint Deputies of Heat - Where rode the Bird The Silence tied His ample - plodding Steed The Apple in the Cellar snug Was all the one that played.
Winter Street Scene (Téli városrészlet),oil on canvas by Antal Berkes
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