Great Poets are rarely understood or appreciated.

Unless I am mistaken film biographies of poets are rare. In fact, I can't think of one in recent years.

A recent exception is Poet Emily Dickinson honored in the film A Quiet Passion which depicted her life from the beginning to its end. I marveled at her self-possession concerning her poetic vocation and the sacrifice.

She possessed a formidable intellect, trailblazer and pioneer at a time when women were clearly considered inferior to men. Emily Dickinson never accepted her assigned role resulting from her gender.

By the end of the film my admiration of her fierce attachment to life which fed her creative passion for poetry was boundless.

I wanted to shout from the rooftops that what a wonderful human being she had been but one who seems to have left far more to humanity than she ever took away.

I saw the film last year and it still affects me recalling, for example, one moving and the painful scene was when her mother who Emily is very devoted to dies.

While the credits rolled at the end of this incredible film, I wondered what had kept me riveted to my seat?

Maybe it was reflected in the muttering from the man next to me `` this is a very popular film`` as we looked upon the packed cinema of a Saturday afternoon. Not a spare seat in the house and for a film about a long-dead American Poet at that! I also heard some opinions of departing filmgoers that cut through the silence that had descended at the end of the film one said: ``what an interesting life`` and another replied, a favorite of mine: ``oh, I don`t know if I could have lived then, life seemed so hard``. A truly priceless comment.

I had been aching to see this film although it had already been released in the United States and UK months prior to being shown in Australia. I deliberately did not read any film reviews.

I had an inkling that Cynthia Nixon an actor from the popular television series Sex In The City had since ending that role as the character Miranda had been cited in favorable stage and film reviews. I was with trepidation looking forward to her portrayal of Emily Dickinson. Who knows I thought, it might confirm my instinct that this film would be an irresistible…

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