dickinson's poems

Question 1

most of her poems were published

Answer 1

posthumously

Question 2

she had an unconventional style as she wrote with

Answer 2

no titles, random caps, and dashes

Question 3

how was she conventional

Answer 3

rhyme and meter

Question 4

slant rhyme was

Answer 4

off rhyme

Question 5

she mainly had themes of

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death and immortallity

Question 6

she was a recluse as she

Answer 6

talked through a door to visitors, wore white

Question 7

what is a ballad

Answer 7

4 line stanzas

Question 8

I dreaded that first Robin, so is about

Answer 8

lots of nature imagery relating to the speaker, holding her back, wishing they wouldn’t come, to go through them

Question 9

Boanerges are

Answer 9

booming voices– biblical allusion

Question 10

Boanerges are in the poem

Answer 10

I like to see it lap the miles

Question 11

I like to see it lap the miles is about

Answer 11

stopping by places and passing other places

Question 12

theme of I like to see it lap the miles

Answer 12

transofrmation

Question 13

the tone of I like to see it lap the miles

Answer 13

ambiguous

Question 14

Because I could not stop for death is about

Answer 14

death stopping for the speaker, watching from young, middle age, to old, and to the grave