Why does Dickinson switch from using the past tense to using the word "feels" in the last stanza? by https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry en-us 2018-11-20 13:19:55 UTC 2025-11-07 21:28:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617845 this may be because she still feels like she's alive. this also relates to the immortality as talked about before and eternal afterlife after death. it also shows her full journey and the changes in time, as she reflecting upon this she still feels the same way. "Feels shorter than the day" It is her memory, a recollection of when death picked her up and brought her to her death, and she still remembers and thinks that she's living immortal.]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617845 Answer yaui1 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617866 She started to use the "feels" in the last stanza because she want to make it to feel like ]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617866 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617877 Possibly because she is reflecting on her moments before her death in the other 5 stanzas. In the final stanza she is in current time and regrets thinking death was so pleasant.]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617877 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617880 Dickinson switches from using the past tense to using the word "feels" in the last stanza to show the changes in time. Her "travelling" to Eternity happened in the past, her laying in the grave is the present. Because she is in the grave (underground), she can't see the daylight and can't determine whether it's been a new day or not. She knows it been a long time, but she doesn't know how long and loses track of time. ]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617880 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617889 As she was writing the poem, she had the feelings described in the last stanza. Or it makes it seem like she is now living in eternity]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617889 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617913 Because of the change of mood from before "he passed us" to after.

]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617913 Maybe because she was in a dream or a coma, and when she wakes up it's as if humanity is almost extinct 19yeungyj21 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617915 2018-11-21 06:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617915 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617928 because in the previous stanza's she was talking about the past and now we go back to the present with her ending off her tale]]> 2018-11-21 06:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617928 A https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617946 The whole poem is her recalling her journey with death centuries after it happened; the first two lines in the last stanza is her saying that she, centuries after it happened (now) still remembers everything that happened vividly]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617946 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617959 This could be because this poem is just her recalling her life up to this point]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617959 maybe because she's immortal and she's talking about how she feels 'now' in the poem while she's dead .. so she's talking about this when she's already dead https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617960 2018-11-21 06:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617960 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617963 This could be because Dickinson wants to emphasise on the point that a long time has passed since then and that she is ]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617963 Dickinson has switched from using past tense in her poem to the word "feels". I think this is because in the stanza before this one she was talking about everything in the past and now she has changed because she might be talking about how she feels and not what has having to her in the past but what is happening to her now. https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617969 2018-11-21 06:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617969 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617974 I believe that this is because she may have been talking about her memories and the first 5 stanzas, and for the last stanza she switches back to present tense, describing what she feels now when she is dead and an immortal.

]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617974 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617998 This is because she switched from her memories of the journey of her death to after she is dead. ]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306617998 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618016 When the writer first writes the poem, it starts off being written in vivid detail and it makes the readers assume that this event happened recently. However by the last stanza when the writer says 'Since then - 'tis Centuries' its changes the way the readers view the event because the writer says its happened in the past . When the writer then says 'Feels shorter than the day' it explains why the writer could describe the event in such detail and remember the day so well.]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618016 because she was talking about something that already happened and then talks about now what she talked about before was centuries ago https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618027 2018-11-21 06:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618027 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618030 It is recalling from the past, the past tense could possibly be from when she was "dying" and feels could be from after she has "died"]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618030 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618047 I think he switches from using past tense to using the word "feels" because he is describing how she is feeling now]]> 2018-11-21 06:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618047 Emily Dickinson went from past tense to "feels" because she's linking it back to immortality and how she felt before and right now. https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618050 2018-11-21 06:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618050 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618216 The past tense in the poem might have been coming from a near death experience that the poetic has had.

]]> 2018-11-21 06:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618216 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618292 This might be because she was talking about her past in the start of this poem, but in the last stanza, she was talking about the present, and how she feels now, like that instant.]]> 2018-11-21 06:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618292 yaui1 https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618365 This is because she is writing what was she feeling and what she was doing before she knew what's going to happen]]> 2018-11-21 06:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618365 she was recalling a memory and is explaining that it "feels"like yesterday https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618403 2018-11-21 06:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gueststaff82/Y10_poetry/wish/306618403