Blog Post 5/6

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3. Resistance and rebellion at either a personal or a larger, social level, can lead to very
interesting poetic explorations. By what means and with what effects have at least two poets you
have studied included such impulses and actions in their poetry?

From one of Emily Dickinson's poems, she viewed herself as nobody in this world. Even though there was a big number of people knew her, considering her as a famous poet, she had never put a tag or a crown on her head. On her perspective, the reader who is reading her poems and herself are both nobody. We might think that this is desocialization. But if we enhanced everyone's existence to the macroscopic of the world, we recognized what is she saying. Also, I can clearly see her resistance from her lines: How dreary to be somebody? Authors are content makers and also are building her identity through her collection. What character she recognizes herself might be different from the other people's sight. Moreover, the public is willing to see Dickinson acting as their impression. To be a person she doesn't want to be, to write things expected by followers, Dickinson has to fight against these ideas. As a poet, she is chasing for freedom of creating and freedom of living in her life. To be a poet is her freedom, but her will is not being exposed in front of everyone, freely imagined by everyone. 

The truth has versatility. The close you see, the more you lose is what she wants to express in another poem. Majorities always chase for the truth. Most of the people want to know everything. If there is a Dickinson's reader, he possibly wants to know the truth of Dickinson. Since people hate to be fooled, Dickinson gives a counterview which refuses to easily believe everything. "Tell all the truth but tell it slant-Success in circuit lies" tells that majority of people become relaxed when they finish up doing something. However, the problem is not always shown by the final result. It may occur in any of the processes. It is telling if people merely like one side of her poems such as brilliant terms but not her depth on her poems. Also, she is a poet who is brave to ask people to think things in different sides. For that, her tone is a little bit strong: The truth must gradually dazzle, or every man be blind. She is a representative of rebellion, advocating people to think deeply in everything.

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