one person you could relate emily dickinson to someone of modern day is Avril Lavigne. Avril, a rock/punk pop music singer.
Comparing Emily Dickinsons Poem
To Jimmy Hendrix's Song
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,-- He flung a menace at the
earth, A menace at the sky.
The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did
scoop itself like hands And throw away the road.
The wagons quickened on the streets, The thunder hurried slow; The
lightning showed a yellow beak, And then a livid claw.
The birds put up the bars to nests, The cattle fled to
barns; There came one drop of giant rain, And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold, The
waters wrecked the sky But overlooked my father's house, lust quartering a tree. -emily dickinson-
After
all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed, you can hear happiness staggering on down the
street, footprints dress in red.
And the wind whispers Mary.
A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken
pieces of yesterday's life. Somewhere a Queen is weeping, somewhere a King has no wife.
And the wind it cries
Mary.
The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed, The tiny island sags
downstream 'Cos the life that they lived is dead.
And the wind screams Mary.
Will the wind ever remember The
names it has blown in the past, And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom It whispers, "No, this will be the
last."
And The Wind Cries Mary.
-jimi hendrix-
These two pieces of literature I
found a very common to each other. if you did not have the authors name attached to these it I believe it would be difficult
to match up which artist wrote which one. Jimi Hendrix's piece was written in 1967 about his girlfriend and a lot it seems
to really be tied into love and what not in a really deep way. In Emily’s version seems to be about how violent Mother
Nature and the wind can be. she shows great sensory imagery when stating that the "the dust did scoop away like hands, and
throw away the road." and "lightning showed a yellow beak, and then a livid claw." these phases are so powerful it can
really make that picture in your head. Hendrix's piece to me is very deep and each line has some type of deeper
meaning such as in the second verse Hendrix states "a broom is drearily sweeping, up the broken pieces of yesterdays life."
Evan using that adjective "drearily" is depictive and sets a depressing mood. And also in that same stanza he says "somewhere
a queen is weeping, somewhere a king has no wife." he states this about himself and then you can obviously tell it is about
love. I choose this modern day, 20th century song to compare to one of Emily’s poems, not because what it is about but
because of how the message is sent and the caliber of the poetic mood the artist set in their work to justify the
power of their feelings.
