https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420072976/GLS?u=j243905&sid=GLS&xid=adf72e22 en-us 2018-01-02 17:28:43 UTC 2018-01-04 13:57:22 UTC hello@padlet.com ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365272 the conflict that these lines suggest--between science and reason on the one hand and intuition and imagination on the other--pervades her work.]]> 2018-01-02 17:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365272 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365353 Dickinson well understood the flaws inherent in the scientific and empirical approach to otherworldly experience.]]> 2018-01-02 17:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365353 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365524 Yet one of her chief strengths as a writer--a feature largely ignored by her critics--remains her daring and original use of science.]]> 2018-01-02 17:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365524 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365628 Dickinson often diminishes the leviathan power of science through both wit and humor, she appears, at the same time, too deeply rationalistic to spurn its method as a source of truth.]]> 2018-01-02 17:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365628 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365711 William Howard, one of the few critics who acknowledges her preoccupation with science, has shown in a seminal essay on her diction that "the Amherst poet" derives a substantial vocabulary from "technical terms of one sort or another" or from "words generally found only in scientific or academic discourse.]]> 2018-01-02 17:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365711 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365783 Jack Capps has also considered her wide reading in the science of the day.]]> 2018-01-02 17:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365783 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365856 more notable than Dickinson's scientific reading and her use of a scientific vocabulary is the general tendency in her work to base her transcendent vision upon concrete verifiable data]]> 2018-01-02 17:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365856 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365916 the whole drift of her work challenges the notion that we can know God's secrets on earth through revelation]]> 2018-01-02 17:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218365916 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366020 Dickinson first attempts to grasp the material world, through reason and science, as firmly as she can]]> 2018-01-02 17:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366020 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366112 Dickinson clings to science tenaciously throughout her poetic career]]> 2018-01-02 17:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366112 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366234 Dickinson, while often critical of science, remains in the end respectful toward it]]> 2018-01-02 17:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366234 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366321 In general, however, Dickinson remains too deeply infused with the rationalistic spirit of science, and with her own sensual delight in nature, to submit freely to her impulse toward immortality]]> 2018-01-02 17:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366321 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366404 the key to her art--as she applies the objective methods of science to her exploration of the phenomenal world, she evolves an ingenious strategy: she comes to use science both as counter to her spiritual ideals and as proof of their validity.]]> 2018-01-02 17:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366404 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366492 Nevertheless, combined with imagination and intuition, science offers, she is convinced, the most practicable methods by which she may inspect the world. Although in numerous poems she may distrust and even disdain science, in this one attitude she is unswerving: she cannot proceed without it. More than an experimental method, science becomes her way to poetry.]]> 2018-01-02 17:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218366492 ashansen18 https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218418852 -she uses her knowledge of science to critic it but also admire it. she wants to challenge peoples belief in god but also support their believes be her diction and rhyme scheme.]]> 2018-01-03 01:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ashansen18/5179uwqhyp0f/wish/218418852