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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Emily Dickinson takes a poetry course</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Ms Dickinson: I’ve just received<br>your amusing little trifle, <br>'Faith is a fine invention'<br>as your first week's homework on this course..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and hope that as your designated docent<br>(you may of course request a change..) <br>we may establish a relationship<br>that’s full of ‘ mellow fruitfulness’ – as<br>John Keats (1795-1821) would put it..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, may I say that it’s more interesting<br>for the reader, not to use the first line <br>of your poem –especially one so short –<br>as the title…something more intriguing perhaps? <br>such as – in this case, ‘Natural Science’? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a feeling that you have within you<br>much more to say on this theme <br>(already well covered by the poets, did you know?) <br>than this whimsical – if pertinent – short verse…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus it’s best for the poet as beginner<br>not to attempt the succinct ‘apercu’<br>(I hope you understand a little French?) <br>of such as our more resonant senior 'gentlemen'..…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do question the use of ‘invention’<br>in the first line; however, <br>I think I detect a hint of emulating<br>William Blake’s poetic stance here? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, in these days of sexual equality<br>it would be best, I think, <br>not to use ‘Gentlemen’… are there not<br>lady biologists and preachers? ...<br>and we don’t now use those capital letters<br>so beloved of our German poets…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your setting-off of science against religion<br>is alas, so easily overdone; especially<br>in the context of so short a verse.. and<br>‘Microscopes are prudent’ is, I have to say, <br>not the most evocative of phrases; even though<br>poetic compaction is a worthy aim…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor is it clear what ‘Emergency’ it is, to which<br>you might refer – microscopes are, I feel, <br>an image of less urgent study? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">However, Miss Dickinson, I suspect<br>that you have a confident personal voice<br>which we shall hope to bring out? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall not discuss the other verse<br>which you include: its punctuation<br>of unseemly dashes reads so breathless<br>that one may hardly bestow the designation<br>‘poesy’ upon it..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However I look forward to your next week’s<br>homework, Miss Dickinson – may I suggest<br>something a little longer for your next<br>poetic venture? There are many themes<br>out there, even for the<br>single lady? Yrs, E. Doolittle BA (Hons)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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'Faith is a fine invention'
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and hope that as your designated docent
(you may of course request a change..) 
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