Experiencing the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson

Abstract

In this brief essay I am concerned not with finding the meaning of poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson; rather, I am engaged in describing the experience of reading these poems, the effects created by them, and the way language is used to create these effects.

Keywords:

• poetry
• reading
• experiencing
• Frost
• Dickinson

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Notes on contributors

Thomas H. Ogden

Thomas H. Ogden, MD is the author of twelve books on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, as well as literary readings of Frost, Borges, Kafka, and others. His recent volumes include Reclaiming Unlived Life; Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works; Rediscovering Psychoanalysis; and This Art of Psychoanalysis; as well as two novels The Parts Left Out and The Hands of Gravity and Chance. His work has been published in more than twenty languages. He teaches, supervises, and practices psychoanalysis in San Francisco, where he also teaches creative writing.