Whitman and Dickinson poetry analysis by Ranga Delsignore

Whitman and Dickinson poetry analysis by Ranga Delsignore https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c created by Rj Delsignore en-us 2018-01-19 18:11:50 UTC 2023-05-25 13:28:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/222893454 I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air -

Between the Heaves of Storm -

The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset - when the King

Be witnessed - in the Room -

I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away

What portion of me be

Assignable - and then it was

There interposed a Fly -

With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -

Between the light - and me -

And then the Windows failed - and then

I could not see to see -

]]> 2018-01-19 18:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/222893454 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223473499 The author, Emily Dickinson, suggests that a person can be prepared for death and try to put everything in order, but when the time is upon them they can still feel unprepared. This is shown throughout the poem when the speaker talks about writing a will and it says,"I willed my Keepsakes-Signed/away/What portion of me be/Assignable..."(lines 11-14). This part of the poem shows that the author has tried to prepare for death by creating a will for others. In another part of the poem it says, "With Blue-uncertain-stumbling/Buzz-/Between the light-and me-"(line 16-18). This quote symbolizes that the speaker is still not fully prepared for death because the author chose to use words such as "stumbling" and "uncertain" to show the speaker was not completely ready to go. These excerpts from the poem show that the meaning of the poem was to convey the message that people can try to prepare for their death, but they can still not be ready to die. ]]> 2018-01-22 18:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223473499 Authors statement 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223540399 Whitman's poem is based around a time of war and he is trying to convey the message that war is brutal and kills innocent men. He conveys this message by stating the scenery of dead or wounded soldiers scattered throughout the poem. In one part of the poem it says the main character sees "Faces, varieties,postures beyond/description, most in obscurity,/some of them dead,/Surgeons operating, attendants/holding lights, the smell of ether,/odor of blood"(line 37-42).This part of the poem shows how dreadful the war was and how it was so awful that a person could literally smell the stench of blood from all the dead and wounded soldiers. Another particular quote that is very particular is where it talks about a certain solder and it says, "At my feet more distinctly a soldier,/ a mere lad, ind danger of/ bleeding to death,(he is shot in the abdomen,)/I stanch the blood temporarily,(the/youngster's face is white as a lily,)"(line 27-32). In this text we see that one of the soldiers wounded is basically a boy and this is awful. In addition, we can infer that he is just an innocent boy because the author writes his face is as white as a lily and the color white represents innocence. Both these quotes show the reasons why Whitman despised the war and how he believed war is brutal and ends up killing lots of innocent men.]]> 2018-01-22 20:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223540399 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223547876 onomatopoeia is seen in the poem when the author writes about what sound she hears when she dies. She writes, "I heard a Fly buzz"(line 1). The impact of the buzzing noise is put in the poem to show that the speaker's mind is secluded from her surroundings and she can hear even the slight buzzing of a fly.

In addition, the author also uses a simile in the poem in order to describe how silent it is when the person is near death. She writes," The Stillness in the Room/Was like the Stillness in the Air-/Between the Heaves of Storm-"(lines 2-4). In these lines Emily relates the silence in the room to heaves of a storm and this helps the reader imagine the silence in the room.]]> 2018-01-22 20:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223547876 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223555964 This image relates to the poem because it depicts the silence in the room as a persons life ends. People surround a person and are sad, but they know the person is now at peace.]]> 2018-01-22 20:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223555964 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223599015
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,
A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,
We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
'Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital,
Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and
poems ever made,
Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and
clouds of smoke,
By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some
in the pews laid down,
At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of
bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,)
Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
Faces, varieties, postures beyond description, most in obscurity,
some of them dead,
Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether,
odor of blood,
The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the
death-spasm sweating,
An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,
The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of
the torches,
These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,
Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
Resuming, marching, ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks,
The unknown road still marching.

]]> 2018-01-23 00:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223599015 Literary Elements 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223604733 In Whitman's poem he likes to use imagery a lot because it allows him to force his readers to visual the harsh and true scenes that occur during war. In the poem he uses imagery when he writes,"The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the
death-spasm sweating,"(line 45-50). In this part of the text we can visualize the many bloody and helpless soldiers that are scattered all over the "impromptu hospital".

Another literary element that Whitman uses in this poem is a simile. In this poem he uses a simile to describe a young soldier who is dying from a gun shot wound. Whitman writes, "I stanch the blood temporarily,(the/youngster's face is white as a lily,)"(line 32-33). This simile is important to this poem because a lily is symbolic of innocence and the soldier who was shot was just a boy so Whitman wanted to make sure the fact that an innocent boy was fighting in a bloody war got across to his audience. This allowed him to convey his hatred of war in general and even the Civil War to be more specific.]]> 2018-01-23 00:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223604733 Picture 192097 https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223619136 This picture represents Whitman's poem because the poem is all about war and how war causes the death of many men and even boys that are just starting to learn what being a man is. This picture shows a group of soldiers marching into battle and leading the pack are young boys. This just shows that Whitman's poems are n't just painting some imaginary picture, but shedding light on what really happens in times of war.]]> 2018-01-23 02:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/192097/upn22i50bf7c/wish/223619136