Zeff Ryder

I’m heading to the desert ranch this weekend to plant palm trees for the western yellow bat…and shade !! 🥵

dedicated post to the most underrated beat poet Elise Cowen 🥀 Emily white witch of Amherst “The shy white witch of Amherst killed her teachers with love i’ll rather mine entomb my mind”

I've started studying a few schools of poetry and will continue self-studying Latin and Middle English again. I've been distancing myself from thesis stuff because I kind of got angry, and then I realized I should definitely do a holiday in my own city. This means I can restudy my university things to get back to what I'm most good at analysing poetry and books connected with historical symbolism. I discovered Elise Cowen while on a few pages written on beat generation’s characteristics. It’s been one of my favourite schools of poetry due to their freeing yet agitated voices, that reflects the foundation of postmodern poetry: liberation, rejection of literary norms, and rejection of materialism. That part always spoke to me, even though I kind of disliked studying post-1900s literature during uni. I ended up falling in love with some of the artistic movements. This poem reflects the dark beauty of Dickinson’s writing style as well as what poetry means. Through the destruction of no longer existing teachers, poets like Dickinson can move forward in a freeing form to produce something unbound by accepted norms. As if digging through the mudded earth, Cowen and Dickinson rejected the authoritarian concepts about ways of living as poets. I hope you also check her other works because I definitely need to read her other poems in the future!