What always surprised me about Dickinson’s poems was the way she handles meter and slant rhyme. We have talked before that she primarily uses iambic meter, which she does for the most part. However, sometimes she breaks the pattern with
Ella’s CS for March 23rd
As our class transitions from reading Dickinson’s letters to her poems, I’ve noticed a lot of parallels, specifically with how she writes about Susan in both forms of writing. When Susan goes away, Dickinson often turns to nature as a
Kenzie’s CS for March 23
In class today, we spent some time anlayzing different versions of poem 80. Each version where a comma was added or a dash was removed added a different meaning to the line or stanza of the poem. I found this
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (For Attendance)
Letters 260 and 261 are the letters that I will be focusing on for this post. These letters were the first letters that Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson, a war hero that had previously written an article to upcoming writers
Paige’s CS for March 11th
I really enjoyed our class discussion today and the places it took us. I wanted to kind of dive a little bit deeper into the idea of Emily Dickinson making the reader/audience a safe space, or a comfort place like
Carleigh’s CS for March 11th
In “Dickinson’s Letters,” Salska sets up what they call the “double perspective:” the subjective, Dickinson’s own perspective while writing the letters and “external, because she had to consider her addressee’s response” (172). This double perspective is especially evident in her
Emily Dickinson and Responses to Modernism
The following quote comes from Chapter 1 of Shari Benstock’s Expatriate Modernism: Writing on the Cultural Rim. I’ve bolded the parts that feel particularly resonant with what we’ve discussed in class concerning early reactions to Dickinson. “In Gertrude Stein’s writing
“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were!”
In class yesterday, we talked a little bit about Dickinson as a recluse and how scholars continue to debate her motives for pulling away from face-to-face interaction. As we were talking, I couldn’t help but picture the image from the
Liz’s CS for March 9th –
In class today the word ‘intense’ was brought up to describe Dickinson, as in ‘maybe she retreated from the world because it was too intense for her to experience directly.’ I feel like you can really see that intensity play
David’s CS for March 9th
One of the most interesting things that’s shown up throughout most of the letters we’ve read so far, and that we only briefly got the chance to touch on in class, was Dickinson’s relationship with God and her views on