{"id":14493,"date":"2024-01-31T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:13:21","slug":"i-started-early-took-my-dog-emily-dickinson-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/i-started-early-took-my-dog-emily-dickinson-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"I started Early \u2013 Took my Dog \u2013 – Emily Dickinson (1862)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A poem about the sea in four-line stanzas, like a song. It starts as a simple walk with a dog, but the sea seems to become menacing and the walker has to flee before getting caught. After reading Kate Atkinson’s novel<\/a>, which refers to this poem in its title and throughout the book, I had to read it. I was not at all familiar with Emily Dickinson’s writing and read also the poem guide<\/a>, which opened a new world to me. I will surely read more Dickinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I started Early \u2013 Took my Dog \u2013
And visited the Sea \u2013
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me \u2013<\/em>

And Frigates \u2013 in the Upper Floor
Extended Hempen Hands \u2013
Presuming Me to be a Mouse \u2013
Aground \u2013 opon the Sands \u2013

But no Man moved Me \u2013 till the Tide
Went past my simple Shoe \u2013
And past my Apron \u2013 and my Belt
And past my Boddice \u2013 too \u2013<\/em>

And made as He would eat me up \u2013
As wholly as a Dew
Opon a Dandelion’s Sleeve \u2013
And then \u2013 I started \u2013 too \u2013

And He \u2013 He followed \u2013 close behind \u2013
I felt His Silver Heel
Opon my Ancle \u2013 Then My Shoes
Would overflow with Pearl

Until We met the Solid Town \u2013
No One He seemed to know \u2013
And bowing \u2013 with a Mighty look \u2013
At me \u2013 The Sea withdrew \u2013”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A poem about the sea in four-line stanzas, like a song. It starts as a simple walk with a dog, but the sea seems to become menacing and the walker has to flee before getting caught. After reading Kate Atkinson’s novel, which refers to this poem in its title and throughout the book, I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[132,24,83],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","tag-fear","tag-magic","tag-water"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hannah-reding-HZTSjwMi8XM-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14503,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions\/14503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}