Emily Dickinson & the Company She Keeps

This lensography of Emily Dickinson lenses and other poetry-centered pages at Squidoo, include commentary, and attempts to see themes among selected Dickinson poems. It also includes geographical topics made significant by the New England poet of the 19th century.

This lensography expands on a smaller one of poems-based pages that only feature Dickinson. Here, I have added lenses devoted to other poets and poetry themes.

There's a quote by two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Wilbur, American poet, on Poetry Foundation's website that expresses a beautiful insight: "One does not use poetry for its major purposes, as a means to organize oneself and the world, until one's world somehow gets out of hand." As I have said elsewhere, "I found myself" in my young adulthood in the poems of Emily Dickinson. Wilbur's quote goes one step further by drawing attention to the feeling I had at the time of being more than a little de-railed.

I hope you benefit from your own story within the illumination of poetry.