Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet because a lot of people say that I write a lot like her. I just love her style and I love thinking about the poems that I've read that she wrote. Plus she is a woman! That's always a plus to hear about women that made themselves known back in a day where it wasn't totally accepted for women to "use their mind".
I don't really have a favorite poem because I love them so much...but I'll tell you one that I just recently read that I like. It is, of course, by Emily Dickinson.
"The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky"
THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.
The brain is deeper than the sea, 5
For, hold them, blue to blue,
The one the other will absorb,
As sponges, buckets do.
The brain is just the weight of God,
For, lift them, pound for pound, 10
And they will differ, if they do,
As syllable from sound.
I just love the whole poem. I don't think she's so much talking about the "brain" but thoughts and ideas that are limitless.
