- #207 (#214) I Taste a liquor never brewed
- talks about nature and how beautiful it is
- bee, flower, pearl, Rhine, butterflies
- summer day/Nature=alcohol
- #320 (#258) There's a Certain Slant of Light
- Death imagery: winter afternoon, weight/oppression, Cathedral tunes, despair, imperial afflictions, shadows, look of death
- Nature imagery: landscape, slant of light, winter, afternoon, air
- #359 (#328) A bird came down the walk
- biting worm in half, moving aside for beetle, bird is afraid, she offers food, he runs away
- symbol for soul?
- #905 (#861) Split the lark - and you'll find the music
- Nature & Love
- #124 (#216) Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
- Imagery of coffins while world goes on without the people inside
- #236 (#324) Some keep the Sabbath going to church
- Heaven is on Earth in nature with orchard birds, wings, birdsong
- "Instead of getting to heaven, at least, I'm going all along"
- #202 (#185) "Faith" is a fine invention
- For gentlemen that see
- But microscopes are prudent
- In an Emergency!
- #620 (#435) Much Madness is divinest sense
- If you agree with majority, you are deemed to have sense
- If you disagree you are considered dangerous
- #339 (#241) I like a look of Agony
- Because that look is not faked
- Because death cannot be faked
- #598 (#632) The brain - is wider than the sky
- The mind is the greatest thing that is because it can contain the sky & ocean & is the same weight/importance of God
- #312 (#252) I can wade Grief
- Author is used to Grief, can stand it easy
- Can't do joy/happiness as well
- Grief when controlled is turned into power
- Give balm to giants & they'll weaken
- Give rockiness/hardship, they'll do the impossible.
Emily Dickinson - December 10, 1830-May 15, 1886
- An American Poet
- Born in Amherst, MA
- Highly introverted
- Eccentric (locals)
- Reluctant to greet guests early in life
- Reluctant to leave her bedroom later in life
- Relationships were through correspondence
- Fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published in her lifetime
- The work that was published often altered by publishers to fit conventional poetic rules of the time
- Poems unique to the era:
- short lines
- typically lacked titles
- slant rhyme
- formed by words with similar but not identical sounds
- unconventional capitalization and punctuation.
- Common themes death and immortality
- First collection of poetry published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd
- 1955 Thomas H Johnson published a complete and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Celebrates limitations of self; not a transcendentalist
- accepts her isolation and limitations
- all life is about exclusion
- Moments only exist now
- Religion does not behave as active agent
- Early stream of consciousness
- Aware of being one of the few women in poetry
- Wanted to provide POV of women, even women who died
- Knowledge possessed by no man
- Rejected patriachal attitude of Calvinism
- Immorality conferred thru poet's voice in poem, not in soul/by God
- Uses dashes to show anxiety and instill it in the reader.
- Nature
- Split the lark
- bulb=tulip
- you'll understand the water if you lose it
- Scarlet Thomas = doubting Thomas
- you heard the music, why do you have to split it? You know the music was true
- Hymn stanza - Ironic yet not 8/6/8/6
- Refused to convert
- Would need to discuss rhyme scheme if asked
- ABCB type Rhyme in "Because I could not stop for death"
- Death
- Faith is a fine invention
- "Faith" in quotes
- Uses "invention" for faith
- Seeing for men with vision
- "Slant of Light"
- Light is oppressive
- Cathedral tunes = funeral
- Light gives heavenly _________
- depressing, makes you feel mourn, winter
- Despair = seal of the 4 horsemen
- Overwhelming, kingly affection
- not sent by God
- hymn stanza - mocks idea of hymn, which praises, but this despairs
- enjambed lines
- of a line, couplet, or stanza of verse ending partway through a sentence or clause that continues in the next.
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