Darryl Friesen’s Reviews > The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë > Status Update
Darryl Friesen
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Emily Brontë only knows D words: despair, darkness, desolation, dismal, drear, distress, dread, doubt, dungeon, doom…
I gotta say, not loving this. It’s like 12-year-old Anne Shirley’s juvenile writing attempts at shock, horror, and sensation…
— Nov 12, 2026 06:17AM
I gotta say, not loving this. It’s like 12-year-old Anne Shirley’s juvenile writing attempts at shock, horror, and sensation…
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Darryl Friesen
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“Gleneden’s Dream” is wonderful! Such vivid, powerful language and images!
— Nov 13, 2026 11:21AM
Darryl Friesen
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“I die; but when the grave shall press”
Beautiful and hopeful! ❤️
For a change… 😅
— Nov 10, 2026 06:57AM
Beautiful and hopeful! ❤️
For a change… 😅
Darryl Friesen
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Finally read a poem that really resonated with me!! “Far Away Is The Land Of Rest” Beautiful!
— Nov 09, 2026 07:54AM
Darryl Friesen
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“Silence whets the fang of pain…”
It’s turns of phrase like that which make this such satisfying reading…
But “dreary” remains the most-used word… 😮💨
— Nov 08, 2026 04:34AM
It’s turns of phrase like that which make this such satisfying reading…
But “dreary” remains the most-used word… 😮💨
Darryl Friesen
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The language is beautiful—but it’s RELENTLESSLY bleak and dismal…
— Nov 07, 2026 01:30PM
Darryl Friesen
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So much that is “drear,” “horror,” “grief,” “desolate,”… It’s a bit repetitive…
— Nov 06, 2026 03:53AM
Darryl Friesen
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“First melted off the hope of youth,
Then fancy’s rainbow fast withdrew;
And then experience told me truth
In mortal bosoms never grew.
‘Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow, servile, insincere;
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there.”
I mean, honesty and self-awareness is good, but this doesn’t lead me to think that Emily was a very happy woman…
— Nov 04, 2026 05:32AM
Then fancy’s rainbow fast withdrew;
And then experience told me truth
In mortal bosoms never grew.
‘Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow, servile, insincere;
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there.”
I mean, honesty and self-awareness is good, but this doesn’t lead me to think that Emily was a very happy woman…
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Nov 12, 2026 07:17AM
🫣🫣 I have to say, I am very entertained with you not enjoying a book but reading it anyway.
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I’m very committed to being a Brontë sister completionist, and then I’m going to do a ranking video!! And part of it will be a rant, which will be very cathartic 😂
Yes I'm feeling the same way. I think it's why I've been having a hard time getting through it but I'm determined at last by the end of December. 🤣
I guess it is fitting that at least she's consistent since she wrote WH. 😅
This makes me want to read her complete poems even more - give me all the doom and gloom and despair 😂 when I’m in the mood for it 🤪
🤣 but honestly it gets old after page after page after page of poetry. I can handle dreary doom and gloom in a novel because I'm focused on the characters and plot. There's none of that in her poetry but the dreary.
Miriam 😂😂😂Well said, Penny! I like a good gloomy story/novel, but it’s so relentlessly non-redemptive here…
While I prefer Anne Bronte's novels to her sisters' novels, Emily Bronte is the better poet. Emily is the best technician out of the three for novels, but the least enjoyable reading experience for said novel.
I’d probably have to agree with you!