Emily Dickenson reads the Connecticut atlas

[fuzzyjay]

A Wilton Hartford Coventry
A Naugatuck of Lyme


(I just read a few of her poems and got her prosody stuck in my head) 

Comments

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

Her rhythm is infectious--no?
It gets stuck in your head.
'Fore long you're singing "Gilligan"
And wishing you were dead!

[watchingitburn.livejournal.com]

"Gilligan" or "Yellow Rose of Texas"?

Choose your poison.

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

I've often said you could sing any Emily Dickinson poem to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song (try it with "Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me" or "Why did they kick me out of heav'n, did I sing too loud?"--"I'm nobody--who are you?" not so much), but "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a bit of a stretch.

**hums**

But I can see it.

[watchingitburn.livejournal.com]

Funny...I had always heard it said with 'Yellow Rose'...for years and years and years. It wasn't until I was almost through college that someone mentioned 'Gilligan' worked as well.

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

And her excessive archaic Capitalization of Nouns. ;-)