| Emily Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” “A Fly Buzzed When I Died” “The Cricket Sang” Content: - dense, poetic conceits which join concrete images from our domestic, day to day, household experience to huge events of cosmic significance: birth, marriage, and death; the tiniest, most insignificant details of life are directly connected to the eternal - a modern celebration of the ambiguous, multiple meanings to be found in her poems - Her poems illuminate the situation of women in 19th c. American society. In a society dominated by men, her poems subvert the established expectations for women. Form: -
Simple form, inspired by hymns and prayers, New England spiritual
diaries. The reader is invited to meditate upon the deep ambiguity of
reality. |