580a 8/31
OMG – you’re not going to believe this! LOL. I stumbled across something really wacky this morning – it really made me laugh. Wait till you hear (and I mean “wait till you hear” literally).
Recently I’ve been writing about some of Dickinson’s 165-plus poems where she mentions the word “sun.”
Yesterday I provided a link from PoemHunter.com which listed 12 of her “sun poems,” and it did include some of my favorites.
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580b 8/31
Perhaps one day I’ll sit and compile my own “Top Twelve” list of Dickinson’s “sun poems,” and like the PoemHunter list, it will include “The Sun just touched the morning” (which I wrote about the other day) and “When I have seen the Sun emerge.”
In the poem, Dickinson really captures the spirit of greeting the excitement of a new day – akin to all the CoSoNauts who greet our community with wishes for a “Good Morning.”
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It always reminds me too of my father-in-law who would always offer up a “Good morning” and add, “another day in which to excel!”
Okay, so here’s the wacky bit I alluded to at the start of this post.
I was looking over the twelve poems on PoemHunters list, and ultimately I clicked on “Read poem” for number 11 on the list (the very poem I’ve mentioned here this morning). That took me to a page with just that particular poem, and...
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...I saw that the page included a video of the poem, and I thought to myself, “How nice – they have videos of someone reading all of the poems on their list” – so I listened to this one.
I was disappointed immediately when I heard a computerized voice reciting the poem – but then…
OMG, I could not believe what I heard! I’m literally sitting here laughing about it. Listen in – you’ll know immediately what I'm talking about!
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LOL – let me know what you think!
Here’s the page for that poem:
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-have-seen-the-sun-emerge/
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I now wonder about elipses...
@grayman LOL -- I couldn't believe it when I heard the computer reading the punctuation!
I wonder if someone at PoemHunter.com has ever listened to this? I think not.
I listened to it, and thought it was part of the poem.
Then I read the poem, and saw what was happening.
Funny and educational. A nice way to start the day.
🙂