Unit 3 Dickinson Poetry

Question 1

I taste a Liquor never Brewed

Answer 1

1. The liquor is the beauty of nature: she gets drunk off air and dew and endless summer days
2. She wants to get so drunk on the beauty of nature that even the angles and saints in heaven take notice of her giddiness

Question 2

Success is Counted Sweetest

Answer 2

1. To appreciate success, you need to have suffered through defeat
2. Success doesn’t mean as much to the always winning army as it does to the always losing army, especially to the dying solider

Question 3

Much Madness is Divenest Sense

Answer 3

1. Making sense to the Majority is insane, but if you conform your are normal
2. If you don’t conform you’re considered dangerous and handled with a chain

Question 4

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant

Answer 4

1. Harsh truth all at once May be too bright, thee way lighting is for children until they are explained what it is
2. Sometimes the truth should be revealed gradually

Question 5

If you were coming in the fall

Answer 5

1. She wishes she knew when he was returning because time would go by much quicker then
2. She would give up her life to see him in the eterenity
3. The pain she feels sis in the uncertainty of the length of the separation, not the separation itself

Question 5

Apparently with no surprise

Answer 5

1. A beautiful flower is killed by frost
2. The frost does not do this on purpose and the sun does not care, and God approves
3. Death, even of young, is part of the cycle of nature, which is why the flower should not be surprised

Question 6

I never saw a moor

Answer 6

1. The speaker has never seen a moor at sea, yet she believes they are there
2. She has never seen heaven or spoken to God, but she has faith
3. Have faith even if you can’t see it

Question 7

Heart, we will forget him

Answer 7

1. Pleading her heart to forget a lost love
2. Short sentences, exclamation points, and dashes to create a sense of urgency as she tries to command her emotions
3. She wants her heart or forget the warmth he gave and she will forget the light

Question 8

Because I couldn’t stop for death

Answer 8

1. Death is personified as a kind carriage driver instead of a normal grime reaper
2. The carriage passes children, grain ready to harvest, and a setting sum, symbolizing the stages of life
3. They pass a house in the ground (grave)
4. Its been centuries but the speaker feels it has been shorter than a day