Emily Dickinson/Susan Howe

Susan Howe took on a completely different meaning of poetic form. With some sentences overlapping, and upside down, the poems needed to be looked at much closer. One can tell that she really likes to play around with the way poems are written and portrayed. She also really take the idea that poems often intertwine and overlap literally. It really gives the readers a chance to interpret what they fell the poem is saying. Even though I think that Howe was trying to show a innovative way to format a poem, I thought the structure of it sometimes took away from the meaning, and it became more distracting. I was left focusing more on how the words were written than what the words were actually.