Emily Dickinson

PoetryBy Erin M, Maddie H, Kathryn T, and

Kathleen N

This is my letter to the

WorldDeath is a dialogue between

This Is my Letter to the World

What can we infer?

Emily has something to say to everyone

Positive?

Negative?

•Four linesThis is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

•Four linesHer Message is committedTo Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

*Two Stanzas *Eight Total Lines

This Is my letter to the World

This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

Who is speaking?

• Emily Dickinson?• A boy?• A girl?• God?

•A commission to serve?

•Desire to be heard?

“This Is My letter to the

World”self reflective of

work

“never wrote to Me”Never got

impact desired

Story Mood

Personification“the simple News that Nature told”

“(World) never wrote to me”

Symbolism“..my letter to the World”

Letter represents her assigned job from nature

Relations of stanzasThis is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

Both discuss her assigned task from mother nature to deliver her message

Relations of stanzasThis is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-

The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

•The instinct to write from nature

Relations of stanzasThis is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet-

countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

•Nature is her boss, its message is her duty

•She tried to relate this message to events in her life (like the civil war)

•Some don’t understand•She seems secluded

RhymeThis is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

Slant Rhyme

True Rhyme

Rhythm?

No Sir

This Is My Letter to the World

This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty

Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see-For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen-Judge tenderly- of Me

Not too consistent

Death is a dialogue between.

•Seems sad and depressing•Shows Emily’s obsession with death•Maybe a bit scary

Death is a dialogue between

The spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death.

The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.”

•Four linesDeath doubts it, argues

from the ground.The Spirit turns away,

Just laying off, for evidence,

An overcoat of clay.

•Four lines

*Two Stanzas *Eight Total Lines

Death is a dialogue between

DEATH is a dialogue betweenThe spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,I have another trust.”

Death doubts it, argues from the ground.The Spirit turns away,Just laying off, for evidence,An overcoat of clay.

Who is speaking?

• A witness to this fight

maybe anyone

StorySomeone dies

Their soul meets death

Death tries to dissolve the soul

Soul fights against death

Death is defeated by the soul

Mood

Begins upsetting and scary with death saying “Dissolve,”

In the second stanza, tensions between death and the spirit rise, and then the spirit overcomes death

Personification“Dissolve,” says Death

The Spirit (says) “Sir I ...”

Death and the Spirit are talking like people

Symbolism“Death is a dialogue between The spirit and the

dust.”

Death as a symbol for conversation in the after life

Imagery“The Spirit turns away”“An overcoat of clay”

Death is a dialogue between

DEATH is a dialogue betweenThe spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,I have another trust.”

Death doubts it, argues from the ground.The Spirit turns away,Just laying off, for evidence,An overcoat of clay.

Both have a conversation between death and the spirit

In the Stanzas

Death is a dialogue between

DEATH is a dialogue betweenThe spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,I have another trust.”

Death doubts it, argues from the ground.The Spirit turns away,Just laying off, for evidence,An overcoat of clay.

Death meets the spirit, begins wanting it to cease living

A kind of fight or debate begins, the Spirit turns away from Death

Death is a dialogue between

DEATH is a dialogue betweenThe spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,I have another trust.”

Death doubts it, argues from the ground.The Spirit turns away,Just laying off, for evidence,An overcoat of clay.

True Rhyme

True Rhyme

Rhyme

Death is a dialogue between

DEATH is a dialogue betweenThe spirit and the dust.“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,I have another trust.”

Death doubts it, argues from the ground.The Spirit turns away,Just laying off, for evidence,An overcoat of clay.

Not much rhyth

m

Rhythm?