https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9 Notes en-us 2017-12-13 14:21:22 UTC 2018-01-04 01:25:46 UTC hello@padlet.com smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215797907 Death takes woman on ride to grave and beyond - reminder of cyclical nature of life]]> 2017-12-13 14:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215797907 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215798451 Visit from death is usually not welcome but is in this poem - Death is a gentleman, polite, she is flattered to find herself in death's favor ]]> 2017-12-13 14:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215798451 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215799449 Immortality is also personified
No description of Immortality
Speaker barely notices him bc she's focused on Death ]]> 2017-12-13 14:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215799449 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215800571 Slow speed, maybe because woman is dead now, carriage transformed into hearse and they are part of funeral procession
Also possible that death has no concept of time (time and space are earthly concepts, death is not bound by vague human concepts)]]> 2017-12-13 14:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215800571 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215801594 People keep busy so that they don't have to think about death, speaker admits she is willing to put aside distractions and go with Death (charming maybe). Comments on Death's good manners, seduced]]> 2017-12-13 14:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215801594 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215802750 Imagery - speaker points out scenery along the ride
Distracted by mortal world - maybe she knows she is seeing them for last time, took them for granted before so now they have more meaning]]> 2017-12-13 14:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215802750 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215803859 Children playing in ring - symbol for eternity
Grain represents natural world 
Setting sun is universal clock ]]> 2017-12-13 14:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215803859 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215804472 house is a grave, this is where her body will live while her soul journeys onward
Describes house as "Swelling on the Ground," image of fresh burial plot
Destination still mystery]]> 2017-12-13 14:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215804472 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215805398 hyperbole, realizes death and afterlife]]> 2017-12-13 14:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215805398 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215805672 Describes what no living person can know - the moment the meaning of forever becomes clear
Looks at heads of horses and sees that they are going toward eternity
Suddenly remembers that Immortality has been sitting beside her the whole time]]> 2017-12-13 14:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215805672 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215806896 Themes: Cycle of Life, Death, Time]]> 2017-12-13 14:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215806896 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215807913 Poem is about death but also about life - emphasizes what is lost after death, not what is gained]]> 2017-12-13 14:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/215807913 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218199347 Female character in the poem is also the persona of the poem - key to understanding that there is irony in the poem]]> 2017-12-30 20:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218199347 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218199864 Beginning of poem is easily interpreted by reader as happy - peaceful images, rhythm, deceptive tone]]> 2017-12-30 21:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218199864 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200071 Second stanza - ironically states that Death "knew no haste"  as if they had all the time in the world

]]> 2017-12-30 21:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200071 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200072 Third stanza suggests more than a mere physical journey - imagery suggests the passage of a lifetime, journey from childhood]]> 2017-12-30 21:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200072 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200075 passage of carriage - funeral procession
Irony of slow journey, persona gives impression that she is unaware of the meaning of the journey throughout the first half of the poem]]> 2017-12-30 21:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200075 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200211 Fourth stanza implies that persona is bound by time - rhythm is disrupted, heavy consonants, alliterated internal rhyme indicates change]]> 2017-12-30 21:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200211 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200596 Dew - she is the source of attraction for the dew, she is dying, change is taking place (she is unaware), she attempts to rationalize the cold by blaming the dew and the thinness of her clothes]]> 2017-12-30 21:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200596 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200655 Carriage arrives at grave, persona suggests that she does not recognize her grave as a grave]]> 2017-12-30 21:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200655 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200685 Grave - diggings around it become part of landscape around a house, top of coffin becomes roof of house, ribbing around coffin becomes a cornice-seals door shut]]> 2017-12-30 21:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200685 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200754 Persona is now speaking from eternity]]> 2017-12-30 21:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218200754 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233175 Girl (persona realizes that death means complete separation from life ]]> 2017-12-31 22:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233175 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233188 Punctuation - first stanza is only one that ends with period, other stanzas end in dashes. First stanza can be interpreted as the thesis statement of the poem. Period may suggest finality of death, dashes may suggest eternality of death]]> 2017-12-31 22:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233188 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233218 Message of poem does not concern possibility of peaceful union with a divine being but does concern the awesome power of death- force which causes complete separation from life]]> 2017-12-31 22:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233218 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233254 Poem ends with one word to suggest timeless quality of separation]]> 2017-12-31 22:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218233254 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419211 By William Wordsworth's standards, "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" does not convey the experience of madness]]> 2018-01-03 01:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419211 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419357 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" uses regular meter, rhyme scheme, and grammatical structures because Dickinson cannot truly replicate insanity so she portrays it as a physical sensation]]> 2018-01-03 01:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419357 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419416 Speaker is presumably telling story from point in time after mental collapse]]> 2018-01-03 01:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419416 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419455 The thought that the speaker is telling story after mental collapse justifies the form of the poem only if the reader interprets the final line to mean "I finished knowing anything for sure after that terrible incident" ]]> 2018-01-03 01:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419455 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419611 Another interpretation of the last line could be that the final "then--" marks the speaker's transition to a mental state where the representation of one's mind through language becomes impossible]]> 2018-01-03 01:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419611 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419613 The poem is un-Wordsworthian and must be approached that way]]> 2018-01-03 01:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419613 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419615 Reader must understand that the poem is an attempt to formalize a complex mental process in familiar language]]> 2018-01-03 01:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419615 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419618 Dickinson uses familiar poetic devices to replicate the subject of her contemplation]]> 2018-01-03 01:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419618 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419906 The images in poem relate to a funeral]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419906 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419910 Funeral is a common ritual, devastating emotional nature of which is appropriate for a poem about the devastation of the speaker's mind]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419910 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419912 The funeral is a metaphor, it is something like what the speaker felt in her brain when her mental troubles began]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419912 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419917 The metaphor for the funeral is appropriate since a funeral is a ritual in which various stages are completed before the burial of the body. This corresponds to the to the various stages through which the speaker's mind passes before its final burial into the graveyard of madness]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419917 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419921 In the early stage of the breakdown, the speaker seems to feel that "sense was breaking through," and that some of her reason was battling with the mourners who plagued her]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419921 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419925 "Breaking through" conveys idea that breakdown can only be portrayed in terms of an explosion of feeling]]> 2018-01-03 02:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218419925 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218420615 After the funeral has begun (which it has), it will not end until the speaker's mind is buried]]> 2018-01-03 02:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218420615 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218429823 Carrying the casket to the gravesite, loud noise grows intolerable when funeral bells ring. Bell is loud and threatening, seems "As all the Heavens" are one bell and the speaker is "but an Ear." Speaker cannot remember time before bell (before funeral in mind - mental breakdown) began]]> 2018-01-03 06:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218429823 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218430156 Final line of poem is ambiguous. Could imply that the speaker had some kind of epiphany and is now mentally strong enough to describe her experience]]> 2018-01-03 06:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218430156 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218576202 Death is personified as a man, so is Immortality who is only mentioned once]]> 2018-01-03 17:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218576202 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218578730 They are on a ride to a house (cornice-ornamental molding below ceiling). House refers to her coffin]]> 2018-01-03 17:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218578730 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218580730 Lots of dashes, only one period. Periods have finality, dashes do not. ]]> 2018-01-03 17:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218580730 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218581064 She acts as if Death is a kind man, maybe at the end she realizes where she is and that Death was taking her to her death]]> 2018-01-03 17:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218581064 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218581660 Third stanza - maybe she is seeing her life (her life flashed before her eyes). In the next stanza it says that "rather - He passed us" possibly means that they are not actually moving, it's like a movie, she is watching her journey to death]]> 2018-01-03 17:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218581660 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218586086 Tippet=scarf
Gossamer=thin, filmy cobwebs/thin material, light, delicate]]> 2018-01-03 17:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218586086 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218586816 Funeral - death
Her mind is going through something, mental instability]]> 2018-01-03 18:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218586816 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218587758 Basically, her mental state is deteriorating and the funeral is representing that ]]> 2018-01-03 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218587758 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218587989 The end is very confusing and leaves much to interpretation.
It could be that she has finally lost it and cannot even explain her illness anymore, there's no hope ?]]> 2018-01-03 18:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218587989 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648125 Poem is statement about negative aspects of marriage for independent woman in the nineteenth century]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648125 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648131 Underscores value Dickinson puts on her independence from worldly conventions and her fear of being caught up in them]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648131 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648137 Woman speaks from grave, telling story of her seduction and journey toward death]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648137 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648143 Personification provides the reader with understanding of difficult concept, allows reader to empathize (or hate, etc.) with ideas that otherwise might remain distant]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648143 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648148 The slow ride emphasizes the seriousness f speaker's "engagement date." Speaker does not resist date, emphasizes male-driven nature of courtship]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648148 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648156 Three images suggest phases of life cycle that speaker has passed and is passing through. Time has stopped for her]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648156 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648159 Chill from the dew suggests emotional coldness that occurs when approaching your death. The journey equates the process of dying to the process of marriage]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648159 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648161 House in the fifth stanza can be seen as bridal house and speaker's grave. There is no door mentioned, suggests there is no escape from death and the domestic deadening that marriage brings]]> 2018-01-03 21:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648161 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648968 Last few lines might imply that speaker is remembering her death from beyond the grave]]> 2018-01-03 21:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218648968 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661328 experience is fully internal]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661328 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661335 the two popular interpretations are that the poem is about the transition from life to death or that it is about the loss of reason (insanity)]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661335 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661336 first stanza opens with notion of a concrete experience that takes place at the nexus of an abstract being]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661336 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661339 description of funeral - readers don't see the world around the perspective but only feel distant vibrations]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661339 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661343 speaker shifts to perspective of the soul, highlights the deterioration of sense]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661343 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661347 by stanza four, physical sensation and connection to concrete world seems to slip away toward detachment]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661347 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661349 repetition of word 'and' at the beginning of every line in the last stanza represents the collapse of voice in on itself]]> 2018-01-04 01:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661349 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661352 dashes around the word 'then' in last line to represent black hole where she resides in silence]]> 2018-01-04 01:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661352 smsamus18 https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661355 poem underscores Dickinson's understanding of her own poetic process by showing the demise of it]]> 2018-01-04 01:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/smsamus18/j96hrp6ur1j9/wish/218661355