AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF Flashcards
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Key themes
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Time / grief / nature / mortality
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Poet, genre, date
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Emily Dickinson ,
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Poet context
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1830 - 1886 Seldom left house / had little visitors Home overlooked cemetry Admired Keats and Robert, Elizabeth Browning REV. CHARLES WADSWORTH metaphysical poet Calvinist --> very strict christian
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Who was Charles Wadsworth?
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Reverand Charles Wadsworth
Dickinson’s only close friend “my closest earthly friend”
left for the West Coast in 1860
Followed string of heartsick poetry
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What is metaphysical poetry?
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Combining unusual or apparently unconnected ideas in order to startle the reader
eg passing of summer to grief
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Literary context
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Modernist and highly orginal fragmented style
Metaphysical conceit
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Link to (Time / nature / human contit / life) ?
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To Autumn
inevitable, imperctible, ephemeral PASSING OF TIME
Negative capability allowing nature to overcome
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Link to (love)?
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She Walks In beauty = Power of NATURE to elaborate and idolise lovers
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Quotesss?
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'Imperciptibly / too imperceptible' ' Summer lapsed away' 'Quietness distilled' 'Twilight long begun' 'Nature spending time with herself' 'Sequestered afternoon' 'Our summer made her light escape' 'Into the beautiful'
