12/21/2023 0 Comments Glory musicalityHow do these contractions affect your understanding of these women?Ħ. "What Soft Cherubic Creatures" (401) is full of contractions, such as "refined horror" and "common glory" as Dickinson describes the gentlewomen of her day. How does this poem or " I taste a liquor never brewed" (214) invite the reader into the a kind of shared strangeness? Do you feel separated or connected by the language?ĥ. " I’m nobody – who are you?" (288) is an invitation to loneliness. What kinds of "sense" or "meaning" might she be suggesting?Ĥ. In " There's a certain slant of light" (258), she writes that the "Heavenly Hurt" gives us "internal difference / where the meanings are." In " I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (280), she writes that it seems "That Sense was breaking through –" Read these two poems together. In two of her poems about grief, Dickinson hints at the possibility of a greater truth coming from sadness. In "They shut me up in Prose," Emily Dickinson writes that being inside prose is "As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet –/ Because they liked me 'still' –" How does the musicality and rhythm of this poem contribute to her idea of movement? Is there a place for being still in Dickinson's poems?ģ. What does it feel like to read a Dickinson poem? What is your sense of her musicality, sound, rhythm, and use of space? Do you read these poems quickly or slowly? What do you think about the capitals or punctuation?Ģ.
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