We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like costumes grandsires wore.
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I don't think it is that Emily Dickinson didn't understand love. My guess is that this poem was written by a mature poet that has come to accept that Love is subjected to the conditions of Life and Life is ever changing.
I know the things that are tucked in my own drawers (physically and mentally), if I did not still love these things, I'd have thrown them away, they are reminders of what was precious; letters, pressed flowers, momentos and trinkets, words and actions to hang emotions on... a treasure to me... insignificant junk and boring drama to those who cannot know the sentimental value.
Eventually we will have to let everything go at some time... the drawers in my heart, mind don't hold memories of anything that I do not want to know again.
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In today's world Emily would have said that love is a commodity that can be cherished or kept, or thrown away. She obviously kept her feelings but she didn't keep her love. Instead it languished in a drawer, to be taken out occasionally and put on show for a while. I don't think she understood love. Iana -
I think everyone goes through such a thing, and maybe that is why so much cheating in relationships happens today in our society. Also when we think about these old loves it seems like centuries ago, even if it was only a year, and sometimes just like antiques we want what we use to have back, or sometimes you just still treasure it. Then we wish we were back at that old place, and just like antiques the memories come flooding back when you see it, and it does make me wonder if it was all lust, and there is no such thing as love at all.
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i too think she is talking about an ended relationship that she still carries memories for
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could it be ... she is talking about outgrowing a love relationship... but still safegaurding and cherishing the associated sentiments for a lifetime... like a precious antique...
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I don't know if you got my last review and I believe that this poem hits the truth. Some people put things away in life. I believe that some people get things out when they are ready for it. I think that is what Emily is trying to say to me. This poem is well written but it is short. It isn't boring but short and I wish I could've read some more on this poem. -
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Very good and in life it is very true that people put things off till when it is time to show the thing in life that we want to show. That is what I thought that this poem means to me. This poem is short and very well written. I think I need to come to Old Poetry to learn more from the great poets. -
interesting
Few words of a short poem. Though, I still think she's trying to say that Love, can get boring, dull peraphs standard, adn we forget about it, then someday miss what was old, and miss the feeling of love.
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I think this one view, I know of love that has matured and grown on in the years. Perhaps she is talking about infatuation more then the companionship sort of love. The idea of outgrowing something sort of suggests to me a phase, just something one grows through, this kind of love would be more superficial and short lived.
A beautiful piece though, a wonderful idea well penned (and penned properly at that not pushed into the screen). Anyway! -
I agree with Drive-by romance, I too have just become an adult so to speak, and I think Emily here is onto someething, we do out grow things and when that happens we cant help but think we are missing smething, and I think part of that something would be the care free life of children and childhood innocence.
she is one of my favorite poets.
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I like it.
I sort of feel like I can relate to what she's talking about. Recently, I have stepped into an "Adult world" and I have this nagging feeling like I'm missing something important. I wish I was still little. -
Weird but I guess in a way good
To be honest I like this poem. Actually I really liked this poem. I liked how you used the lines and the descriptions. I honestly didn't really like the 4th line. But hey who am I to say!!
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I like the poem. I think however, that she confused love with infatuation. Infatuation happens right away when real love takes its time, sometimes a long time. Infatuation dies after a while when real love lasts until death. -
800 of her poems out of the 2000 known were written during a six year period, between 1858 and 1864, when she was in her late 20s and early 30s. In 1862, she began writing to her lifelong correspondant Rev. Higginson and perhaps she wrote this at the time she was accepting the platonic nature of a relationship she perhaps wished could be a romantic one. He was the one who influenced her not to publish because he was dubious about the public's acceptance of the odd nature of her poetry. She bound her poems into small volumes she called fascicles, and forty of them were found in her room (in a drawer)after she died.
I also think that she had an appreciation for old costumes and antique finery and maybe even an inkling that her poems would someday shine. -
I don't agree that we outgrow 'Love' persay just perhaps the person one is in love with, the emotions and memories being 'brought out' like the old clothes of our grandparents.
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It was a very prophetic write on her part since she did, in fact, simply put her poems away inside a drawer where they were discovered after her death.
(By the way, Vonnie, I'm having trouble posting here -- if I click "reply" the comments don't show up.) -
It was easy to read,yet not simple or boring. It makes one wonder where the author coming from when she wrote it. Why did she write it?
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its a good poem.
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