My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger

Author:Alfred Habegger [Habegger, Alfred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781588361301
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2001-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Fame of Myself, to justify,

All other Plaudit be

Superfluous – An Incense

Beyond Nescessity –

Fame of Myself to lack – Although

My Name be else supreme –

This were an Honor honorless –

A futile Diadem –

Fr481

Others’ praise could neither justify her self-approval (“Fame of Myself”) nor compensate for its absence. Enclosed by two poems about an honorable performance in battle, these lines, apparently shown to no one, underline what Dickinson’s work as a whole all but proclaims: she wasn’t driven by a quest for recognition. Rather, her writing was the expression of a hard existential fight that could not be shirked, and for which no attitude was quite so fitting as a gay tragic irony. Knowing that others were also fighting counted for a great deal.

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