Carnival Post on 1820-1865

I found that this is a very interesting literary time period.  This time period is considered to be the renaissance of American Literature.  With writers finally beginning to be put on the map as respected writers from America this is a significant time.  Although this is ture our American Literature has found these text tobe be a little bit more difficult to comprehend especially Dickenson.  I struggled hwen choosing who I would do my carnival post over because not very many people have been posting on the same thing or are up to speed on posts, but from what I saw we have some confusion with Dickenson

In several blogs my fellow classmantes speak about the complexity of Emily Dickinson poems and the difficulty of understanding poetry from this time period forward in general. Although the frustration level varies, but there are just a lot of questions about the meaning of Dickenson's poems. 

In Crista and Esthers blog she both write about her own frustrations with Dickenson and most of it has to do with the interpretations of the poems that she writes.  Julia doesn't really enjoy reading Dickenson but is definitely more open minded to learning and evaluation what she is saying.  She talks about making mistakes and how with poetry it is a little different.  She continues and basically states that when interpreting something that its okay to be wrong.

Nikki had some very good thoughts about the bias that we bring as readers into poetry.  She talks about our ability to connect with poetry from the past can help us to connect and make connections our life now.  She says that there is value in poetry there. 

Overall there are those who don't like Dickenson;s poems at all, but still can find something in them.  Others don't enjoy Dickenson's poems because of the difficult interpretation that is required and often times lack of context within her poems.