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Setting Emily Dickinson to Music

Posted May 3, 2009, 11:05 ET

Poems never belong to one unless they are memorized, and spoken aloud.  And they are best memorized when they are sung. That’s why Emily Dicksinson is best appreciated when sung to a catchy tune, such as the Yellow Rose of Texas.

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

Category: culture

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