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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:21 pm
Which is more emotionally provokative, Emily Dickenson or Edgar Allen Poe, and why?
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:58 pm
I'm not entirely sure if this is a legitamate answer but I don't find either of them emotionally provokative. Perhaps it is due to the fact that, opposed to popular belief, I don't find their works to be timeless and have a difficult time connecting to them in the same way I can connect with contemporary writers. Perhaps their titles as "classic writers" have ruined the experience for me, or perhaps it is my own general closemindedness towards works of the past. I just can't really connect at all and I don't get the emotional feedback that I get from reading virtually any modern writer, including my friends (who tend to be very accomplished writers in their own rights). I mean, they may have amazing style or whatever it is that makes them famous, but if I can't connect with what they're saying on a base emotinal level, then I can do little more than "politely appriciate" their works.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:00 pm
Edgar Allen Poe is certainly the more illustrative writer of the two; I personally find his works to be of a skin-crawling nature that rarely exists in most of today's fiction. True, modern writers have the capability of exerting the same chilling force, but Poe has a way of twisting the irony from fear, so it leaves you thinking about it. In my own opinion, Dickenson's work is interesting enough, but pales in comparison.
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:13 pm
with emily dickenson i find it difficult to read her work, not because the words are to big or anything... it just didnt hold my interest in the same way as other books and stories. not that her work wasnt beautifully written... her style intrigued me but not the content...
as for edgar allen poe i must depressingly admit i havent read any of his works... or tried really i just have so many other books to read
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:39 pm
I guess Emily was subtle and more sensory based.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:00 pm
I haven't read much of Emily Dickenson's poetry, I found it kind of uninteresting, but Poe really creeps me out... Last year I performed in a radio play called Tinntinabulations which was all about how his work tied into what was happening in his life, very depressing.. But the telltale heart has to be the creepiest thing ever.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:51 pm
I don't know if Poe is emotionally provokative, but it definitely is the more provocative of the two. It depends on just what emotions need to be provoked; I prefer classic literature and poetry anyday, so I am more biased towards Poe because some of his work resembles early ballads (to me) despite being part of the Romantic movement.
I don't rightly know gonk .
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:50 am
Personally, I find Poe to be the more provocative of the two, but only because I don't seem to connect with any of Dickeson's works. To me Poe is heart wrenching, gut-yourself-with-a-spork and Dickeson is just....well, boring. I can't really say much about it....I have read about equal amounts of both writers, but I had to put my Dickenson book away because I couldn't get into it and kept getting distracted (and falling asleep... sweatdrop ) but my Poe book stayed open and being read for hours at a time because I just couldn't put it down.....Poe captivates me more.
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:39 pm
i'm an emily fan. Poe is great with his work but they sat there and kept having us read his works all the time my 10th grade year that i find it the same. Dickenson has more emotion hidden that it shows greater emotions in her works. Hidden meanings are better then the constant morbidness in Poe's work.
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:13 am
personally i find Emily's work to b easier to memorize but Poe's work holds much more attention cuz his work i find mysterious and different Emily's is short and sweet to a point but Poe hides a meaning in his work
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:28 pm
I love both, but faced with a choice I would have to go with Edgar Allan Poe who, can write one of the most beautiful love poems (Annabel Lee, even though it changes to become scarier it's still one of the most beautiful love poems ever written) yet write dark and scary pieces enough to leave you nervous even though you know it wouldn't happen. Emily Dickinson was wonderful, but I love reading Poe's work. Has anybody else been to the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, MA? It's really cool, I live about 45 minutes away, and when we went it was SO awesome, to be able to see where Emily Dickinson got all her inspirations and wrote.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:57 pm
why Dickinson vs Poe? It's so subjective and so limiting at the same time. Just curious.
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:57 pm
My vote was biased. My mother has a leather bound book of most of Poe's work (which I pratically stole, it's a nice book sweatdrop ) and I've read one Dickinsen poem about her talking to a frog (I think) about nobodys and somebodys.
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:12 am
adlib why Dickinson vs Poe? It's so subjective and so limiting at the same time. Just curious. because they're favorites among the classics? Isn't any discussion going to be subjective unless it's based on science, in which case it's still subjective if you don't agree with the science and have your own theories?
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:36 am
It's hard to compare the two because they lived very different lives and wrote in very different eras. Emily Dickinson wrote beautiful pieces. Once you take the time to analyze them and look at them from the context of the time and place, you can see how emotional they really are.
Edgar Allen Poe, however, wrote gothic poems and stories that appealed to and exposed the darker side of humanity. Once read and understood, one will find that his pieces usually aren't as much emotional as they make the reader feel (as if Poe were playing with the readers emotions of fear, sorrow, etc).
At least, that's the conclusion I've come to after reading and analyzing both multiple times.
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