Post on 24-Feb-2016
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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 lines
This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me-The simple News that Nature told-With tender Majesty
•Four lines
Her 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 betweenThe spirit and the dust.
“Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir,
I have another trust.”
•Four lines
Death 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
MoodBegins 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?