How The Old Mountains Drip With Sunset Flashcards
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When was how the old mountains drip with sunset written
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1861 poem 291
2
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What is the theme
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Nature
Art
3
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What is the form
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A lyric poem in third person causing detachment and amazement
4
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What is the structure
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6 stanza poem in quatrains in tetrameter
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What is the tone
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Amazement
Disbelief
Awe
6
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What are language techniques
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- Anaphora providing a forward momentum for each sunset description but also conveys disbelief and awe as she quickly throws descriptions of a sunset
- symbolisation “how the hemlocks burn” to show colour of sunset
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Quick languages techniques (2)
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- enjambment “with sunset how the hemlocks burn” showing the sunset flowing into the mountains. Also symbolisation of the colour of the sunset
- personification “how the dun brake is draped in cinder” showing that the sunset is covering everything
- “by the wizard sun” showing spirituality, it’s something godly to behold due to its magic
- Anaphora “how the” showing a loss of thought repeating how the sunset looks, struggling to describe it adequately enough
- alliteration “steeples hand the scarlet” linking sunset to the church and further showing the godly sunset
- “as a duchess passed” this symbolisation shows a regal closing scene of the sunset, these people are rare to see everyday showing how precious this scene is
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Quick languages techniques (3)
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- Personification “how a small duck crawls on the village” showing how small and insignificant the nighttime now looks to the character
- Art reference “Till the houses blot” the houses are covering the sunset, after using colour imagery to create the scene she now uses art references to describe it.
- “no men carry” man made things that men create cannot in anyway compare to the sunset
- art allusions to “guido, Titan and Domenichino” showing that even artists can’t replicate the beauty she’s witnessed.
- “domenichino dropped his pencil” he was stunned and gave up trying to replicate the beauty.
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Context
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Guido is a religious artist who painted portraits of Christ and heaven- renaissance artist
In her letters she wrote “nature is a haunted house but art is a house that tries to be haunted”
To Dickinson art exists to make sense of mysterious nature
