Walk 'n Write Denver Adventures:
A writers guide to walking in the city, with writing prompts!
Today we walk down Poet's Row, in central Denver.
Writing prompt below description.
An apartment on Poet's Row.
Poets Row: Emily Dickinson
1015 Sherman Street | Denver, CO | 80203 | (303) 830-100
“I dwell in possibility. ” - Emily Dickinson
From Real Estate Web Site: www.tritonproperties.com
"Built in 1956, this building consists of 30 quaint studio apartments. Observed by the National Register of Historic Places, this building is located on the Poets Row, a row of six buildings named after noted authors and poets. Each building is as unique as the poet it is named after!"
Emily
Dickinson:
1830 – 1886: Wrote 1700 poems (at least !)
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
1830 – 1886: Wrote 1700 poems (at least !)
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.
127: "Houses"—so the Wise Men tell me—
"Mansions"! Mansions
must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there—
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Writing Prompt:
Where is your mansion? What does it look like?
Walk us through the rooms, and tell us who is there.
Where is your mansion? What does it look like?
Walk us through the rooms, and tell us who is there.
