Major Features of Emily Dickinson's Poetry (02) by John Badley https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms After the lecture yesterday (see keynote) and choosing two Dickinson poems (at least one from one of the handouts), please identify one feature of Emily Dickinson's poetry here. The feature can include any sort of pattern that you notice with regard to form (rhyme scheme, meter, structure, punctuation, capitalization, etc.) or content (subjects, themes, motifs, words, symbols, etc.). Then look through other students' posts and like those that apply to your poems as well. This process ought to lead us to locate a representative list of the features of her poetry. Make sure your post includes your name, which poems you read (use Franklin numbers, fascicle sheet numbers, or first lines), and that you use textual evidence to DEMONSTRATE that your feature comes up in your poems. en-us 2019-01-30 13:46:27 UTC 2025-06-02 12:42:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pizza.png Dickinson Intro Lecture john_d_badley https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824326 2019-01-30 13:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824326 Fascicle 23 Packet (from Miller; publication info at the end) john_d_badley https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824330 2019-01-30 13:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824330 Emily Dickinson on Jesus (Miller texts) john_d_badley https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824331 2019-01-30 13:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/325824331 Update john_d_badley https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326333934 This is getting messy on Padlet.  Two new ideas for clarity:

1) Make the title of your post the one or two features that you posted about and your name, so I would rename Drags' "Tetrameter/Trimeter & Unusual Diction - Dragisics" or the like.  That way it will be easier for your peers to quickly determine what to like.

2) Perhaps BOLDING your features would speed up this process as well
]]> 2019-01-31 16:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326333934 Captilization of Nouns and Diction of Sentences- Holden HoldenAyd https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326499397 Across all of Emily Dickinson’s poems there seems to be a constant capitalization of words throughout the poems. These capitalizations seem to only be on Nouns in the poems, especially after specific Hyphens. This brings me to my second constant I see across the poems is the Diction of the sentences. By this I mean the hyphenating and seperation of the lines in the poems. Thus making these lines to be separated out and short, which also causes the trend in her poems of the 4 3 4 3 feet. ]]> 2019-01-31 21:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326499397 Confusing Syntax and Diction in Poems - Tumminello https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326556254 Emily Dickinson proves to be a difficult poet to understand. Her strange but unique habit of writing poems on whatever material was convenient, for this example, envelopes, make it hard to convey what exactly she is saying. On her envelopes she may have had multiple poems written across them so this, along with her obscure habit of random capitalizing, makes it difficult to decipher the poems and makes it easy for any novice poet to mix up her words and what she is writing. ]]> 2019-02-01 03:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326556254 Capitalization and Lack of Titles https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326558454 One unique feature among the poems of Emily Dickinson is her tendency to capitalize numerous words throughout her poems. It seems very random amd meaningless at first but it appears that only nouns are capitalized. However, not all of the nouns within her poems are capitalized so the reason may never be known. Another interesting feature of her poems is her lack of titles for several of her poems. For example, 353, 355, 359, 269, 260, and 202 are just some of her many poems that lack a title that appears relevant to the text. These are only two of several unique features to the poetry of Emily Dickinson.]]> 2019-02-01 03:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326558454 Capitalization and Lack of Titles (Redo) jspicer4 https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326562093 One unique feature among the poems of Emily Dickinson is her tendency to capitalize numerous words throughout her poems. It seems very random and meaningless at first but it appears that only nouns are capitalized. However, not all of the nouns within her poems are capitalized so the reason may never be known. Another interesting feature of her poems is her lack of titles for several of her poems. For example, 353, 355, 359, 269, 260, and 202 are just some of her many poems that lack a title that appears relevant to the text. These are only two of several unique features to the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

]]> 2019-02-01 04:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326562093 Tetrameter/trimeter and Tone PLewis23 https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326562799 A feature that I found interesting about her poems is that she switches between tetrameter and trimeter. She also writes in iambic pentameter. He first line is usually iambic tetrameter and the next would be iambic trimeter then it starts to alternate in that order. This is a unique feature she uses because she would then for one stanza switch this pattern up to emphasize the importance of it. Like she does this in Fascicle twenty three, sheet one, lines 13-16, she switches to iambic trimeter to iambic tetrameter. Also another interesting feature about her work is the melancholy tone throughout her works. She seems to refer to death and dying on a lot of her poetry.]]> 2019-02-01 04:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326562799 Mood and its Tone and Mysterious Ronix Bhandari https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326568719 When reading these poems by Dickinson I found the mood of the mood to be quite mysterious. The message of these poems are not straightforward at all. The words in the poem don’t collaborate to give a specific meaning. Reading the poem “365” , it keeps talking about a fly but it’s uncertain if that’s the main focus of the poem. For the 1263 poem the same problem occurs here. It’s very puzzling about who or what the poem is talking about. 

The poem is also very mysterious as a whole as the audience cannot depict who th domain focus of th poem is. When reading these other poems, it’s manifest who the main character or characters are.]]> 2019-02-01 05:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326568719 Interesting Puncuation and the Lack of It-Luke ltollen https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326570763 Emily Dickinson uses non-traditional punucation which affects the overall rhythm of the poem. In many of her poem, she will use dashes instead of periods to end a line. You can see this in many of the poems on Emily Dickinson on Jesus and in poem 341. The idea of the dashes raise suspicion to whether there is an inference of importance on the dash. Yet, it is very hard to make that clear since there are so many dashes in one poem. Also, she used commas in a way to divide the poem rather than periods. The idea may be that she never wants to end the poem because it is one bug statement. Yet, she uses dashes to end some poems and periods on others.]]> 2019-02-01 05:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326570763 Use of Commas (1142) pwinfield https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326664743 While reading this poem from Emily Dickinson, I noticed she has a unique way of using commas. She uses them in a way that brings more emphasis to her points. For example, “Till what we speculate, has been.” Instead of keeping this as a normal sentence with no commas, adding one before has been emphasizes the state of it actually happening. Therefore, Dickinson’s use of commas helps readers understand when she attempts to emphasize certain lines and themes.

]]> 2019-02-01 13:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326664743 sam yakim - commas and capitulation https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326667003 Dickinson uses commas in places they typically should not be used such as the middle of sentences in words that are not names, typically the second word in a sentence. This technique proceeds to highlight and make certain words more important while leaving the not capitalized words accented. Commas come also in places they should not be and words that follow commas often are capitalized. ]]> 2019-02-01 13:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/john_d_badley/ay7ttq8sntms/wish/326667003