Twenty students in The Unthinkable Mind class were told they had a week to memorize Emily Dickinson’s Poem #530.
Two days later, before most of them had started working on it, they were asked write down what they could remember of the poem, no presented here in no particular order.
QUESTION: What traces does a poem leave behind after one has read it only once or twice?
Poem # 530
You cannot put a Fire out -- A Thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a Fan -- Upon the slowest Night -- You cannot fold a Flood -- And put it in a Drawer -- Because the Winds would find it out -- And tell your Cedar Floor --
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