Stein & Dickinson

Gertrude Stein is one of my most favorite poets. She writes with such a sadness. She had quite a few of her lovers die and she was never able to have any children. These elements always seem to come across in her work. For example, in "A Little called Pauline" the focus in one a small girl. I always been lead to believe that Emily Dickinson was a bit of a morbid poet also, having always read "I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-" in any class having to do with poetry. After reading more of her works and Susan Howe's "My Emily Dickinson," I see that there are more facets to Emily Dickinson, but that I was not altogether wrong when I first pegged her as morbid and eccentric.