connecting emily to merton, the hermit idea in america always includes reams of correspondance, a hermit cannot be well known and well written about w/o the paper peeking thru.

thinking of collins poem about undressing her, isnt ed naked, isnt her rawness, her devotion to imagery of flesh, sexual or at least sensusal, then the poem is a metaphor, not high class slash fiction, but what we need to do to ed (why do we need to do it to ed, she has done it for us.) thantoseros

in the authour note on emily, in burn break and blow, paglias book on poetry, she mentions the locked cabneint, but which poet is not secure about first drafts, why would they be in books, why the constant and never ending edits, her work is constantly worked over. (cannot find my copy of sexual personae)

is the idea of a writer w/o wanting a publisher real?

qoutes of what paglia says in break blow burn:

Because I Could Not Stop For Death:
deeply inspired by metaphyiscal poetry
"human beings waiting for the grim reaper or christ himself, who weilds a strike on doomsday" (98)

Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers
"Dickonsons usual four line stanza format, based on sturdy protestant hymn structures" (102)
{i am not sure i agree w. this) "They are meek b/c they were led like sheep in life and have now lost the ability to rebel. "Resuerction was their lure and grail." (103)

The Soul Selects Her Chamber
does not seem to notice the contradictions in the reading, b/w a call to hermeticism, and noticing the correspondance.
mentioning herbert. (worth approaching?)