emily dickinson -- untitled

[syntheticmuse.livejournal.com]

I Felt a cleavage in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.

The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.

Comments

[silverflurry.livejournal.com]

Lovely, she's great.

[miadzin.livejournal.com]

All of Dickinson's poems are untitled. People generally just take the first line and make that the title.

i know ...

[syntheticmuse.livejournal.com]

but anal retentive fuck that i am, & especially about authorial intentions, i do not consider those to be titles & therefore entitle them "untitled". :-) s.

Re: i know ...

[miadzin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never understood that. If she wanted to give them titles, she would've done so.

[syntheticmuse.livejournal.com]

oh, am adding you to my lj friends list, btw, if that's cool...am a joyce fanatic. :-) s.

[miadzin.livejournal.com]

Awwww yeah! Here's the part where I pimp my community: j_joyce There's 600 people with James Joyce as an interest, and only 14 or so people are in that community. So sad :(

[syntheticmuse.livejournal.com]

just looked over it & will likely join in a sec or so. :-) you posted something or another on wanting information on joyce & shakespeare and on father & son motifs a while back. check out these:
1. shakespeare and joyce by vincent john cheng (on finnegan's wake)
2. joyce and shakespeare by william schutte (on ulysses)
3. hamlet and the new poetic: james joyce and t. s. eliot by william quillian

hugh kenner, in a colder eye, also has some interesting chapters on joyce's use of chiarascuro in portrait. he also has an interesting idea of how hamlet is like ulysses, or rather, how they're a taling *grin* of the same story but hamlet is told from the son's persepective & ulysses is told from the father's persepective.

hope that helps. s.

[miadzin.livejournal.com]

Thanks a bunch!