9) Birth of American Poetry II- Dickinson Flashcards
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Characterize Emily Dickinson’s publication history
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Wrote about 1800 poems, discovered posthumously by her sister Lavinia, only few of her poems were published during her lifetime in magazines
2
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Describe the first edition of Dickenson’s Poems
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115 poems, heavily edited, spelling and punctuation standardized, words changed; eleven printings in two years, added titles to the poems
3
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Describe the formal aspects of Emily Dickenson’s poems
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Stanzaic structure and metre based on traditional music forms- hymns and ballads- changes them, uses quatraints, unusual stressing of words
4
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What type of rhyme does Emily Dickenson uses in her poems?
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Perfect rhyme, full rhyme, half rhyme, slant rhyme, eye rhyme, visual rhyme…
