https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420072976/GLS?u=j243905&sid=GLS&xid=adf72e22 en-us 2017-12-08 14:00:47 UTC 2026-02-09 22:10:55 UTC hello@padlet.com bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215419701 Her work is somewhere "between science and reason on the one hand and intuition and imagination on the other"]]> 2017-12-12 14:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215419701 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215420612 She "understood the flaws inherent in the scientific and empirical approach to otherworldly experience."]]> 2017-12-12 14:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215420612 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215422187 She uses proof through science as the straight truth in all her poems.]]> 2017-12-12 14:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/215422187 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031159 She has a "tendency in her work to base her transcendent vision upon concrete verifiable data." ]]> 2017-12-27 03:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031159 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031165 In her sublime poems, Dickinson she tests spiritual ideas against nature's laws.]]> 2017-12-27 03:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031165 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031175 The path of her poems lies in observations of the world as much as in a poet's imaginative speculations.]]> 2017-12-27 03:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031175 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031211 Although she uses scientific ideas and laws, "in several poems she disparages methods that generally she employs and respects."]]> 2017-12-27 03:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031211 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031224 Dickinson's speaker in some of her poems are of herself as a scientist, which she then identifies with]]> 2017-12-27 03:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031224 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031237 (over the last line of the poem Scarlett Experiment) That the poet-scientist does seek such communion Dickinson suggests both by the object of her speaker's search--the invisible and ethereal music--and by the image of the bird itself, a constant symbol in Dickinson for immortality.]]> 2017-12-27 03:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218031237 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218205372 Her use of birds throughout her poems and their ascensions indicates that sometimes she could ascend toward eternity]]> 2017-12-31 01:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218205372 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265271 "Split the Lark" views such transcendent insight as virtually impossible to achieve, first, because of man's faulty scientific approach to the world, and second, because of the inscrutable character of nature, and indeed of all its creatures]]> 2018-01-01 21:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265271 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265571 The idea of man's separation from other natural creatures, and hence from their link to eternity, persists in Dickinson's avian poems.]]> 2018-01-01 21:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265571 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265581 Dickinson understands that she can grasp objective reality but dimly at best.]]> 2018-01-01 21:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265581 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265656 Dickinson speaks from anguished experience. Although she often aspires to revelation, usually she fails to achieve it.]]> 2018-01-01 21:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265656 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265688 Being an inmate of one world, of "This whole Experiment of Green" ("1333"), yet being also an infrequent visitor to that other world, "the Further Heaven" of which she speaks, deprives her, in effect, of both worlds]]> 2018-01-01 21:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218265688 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218266060 To probe nature, she adopts the objective and empirical methods of science because she has no other choice]]> 2018-01-01 22:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218266060 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218269042 Her "Moments" of revelation depend for their very existence upon the scientific method]]> 2018-01-01 23:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218269042 bltate18 https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218269050 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]]> 2018-01-01 23:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bltate18/6ktg582nvn8j/wish/218269050