Major Features of Emily Dickinson's Poetry (03) by John Badley

Dickinson Intro Lecture

john_d_badley — 2019-01-31 15:17:57 UTC

Fascicle 23 Packet (from Miller; publication info at the end)

john_d_badley — 2019-01-31 15:17:57 UTC

Emily Dickinson on Jesus (Miller texts)

john_d_badley — 2019-01-31 15:17:57 UTC

Update

john_d_badley — 2019-01-31 16:07:43 UTC

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

“Meter (Iambic Tetrameter/Trimeter) and Capitalization”- Duclayan

mduclayan — 2019-01-31 20:22:10 UTC

The poems that I selected, “My Faith is larger than the Hills” and “I lived on Dread” had these two features in common:
1. Meter: A common feature that showed up between the two poems was an alternating meter in the lines between Iambic Tetrameter and Trimeter.
  1. For example, in the “My Faith is larger than the Hills” Poem, the line “And then abroad the World He go” is written in Iambic Tetrameter but in the following line “To do His Golden Will” the meter transitions to Iambic Trimeter.
2. Capitalization: Another feature that had significance in both poems was Dickinson’s capitalization of the first words in a line and another subsequent word in the same line. This seemed to show that there is a relationship between the words outside of the poem.
  1. For example, in the “I lived on Dread” poem, the line “Were challenging Despair“ has the words “Were” and “Despair” capitalized implying the significance of the words or their shared relationship.

“Capitalization and Schemes”-Andrews

nandrews5 — 2019-01-31 20:25:03 UTC

F12.03.015, J225, Fr197
Capitalization on standout words of “Crucifix” and “Paradise”.

-J1487, Fr1538
Capitalization on words such as “Gentlemen”, “Day”, “Boys”, “Billion”, and “Miles”.

Similarities between the two
-Both show unique use of capitalization to emphasize certain words in the text to portray their meaning. No true rhyme scheme within the two poems. Only two stanzas. Deal with different parts of Jesus’ life.

Iambic Trimeter / Tetrameter and Capitalization - Schenning

dschenning — 2019-01-31 20:29:10 UTC

The poems "My Faith is larger than the Hills" and "I lived on Dread" share meter and strange capitalization. After the first two lines of "I lived on Dread" the poems share meter by alternating between Iambic Trimeter and Iambic Tetrameter. "My faith is larger than the Hills - So when the Hills decay" is an example of the iambic trimeter and tetrameter. There are also capitalizations where they wouldn't be grammatically correct in order to emphasize words of importance. "I lived on Dread" capitalizes dread because of it's importance in the poem even though it shouldn't be capital.

Themes and Capitalization Potter

2019-01-31 20:31:14 UTC

Poems used 1142, and Emily Dickinson on Jesus. Most poems on handout

Something in common that I noticed when reading the poems was that she wrote about nearing death. She would capitalize death to maybe give it emphasis on what she was writing about. Murmuring of bees has ceased, nature’s laugh is done. These make us think that what she is talking about is gone and when it is gone we can relate that to death. When she wrote about Jesus she would mention crucifixion which she capitalized so again there seems to be a common theme with death.

Themes and Capitalization- McDonnell

amcdonnell5 — 2019-01-31 21:15:27 UTC

Poems J1433, Fr1459 and F35.04.013, J698, Fr727 of Emily Dickinson on Jesus both have a similar use of theme and capitalization.

The central theme of the poem is death. Dickinson uses the metaphor of walking the plank in J1433 and in the second one she mentions life and death as a journey.

Dickinson uses capitalization as a method of emphasis. She chooses words with significance to capitalize. For example she capitalizes “Pier”, “Bridge”, and “Plank” which are all important words to the theme of Jesus figuratively walking the plank as his death.

Capitalization and Meter - Ditzel

mditzel — 2019-01-31 22:27:26 UTC

J1413, Fr1459 and J1487, Fr1538
This poems both seem to capitalize specific words that have meaning to the poem itself. The meter seems to be the same in both poems.

As for capitalization, it seems that they are both similar in the sense that all words that are capitalized when they aren’t supposed to be. The words capitalized have meaning to the text and are usually nouns.

As for meter, the poem, there are 2 stanzas in each poem, the third line in each verse is iambic tetrameter, while every other is iambic trimeter.

“Capitalization/Punctuation -Rykiel

rrykiel — 2019-01-31 22:27:45 UTC

The two poems I read were, “My Faith is larger than the Hills...” and “The Whole of it came not at once...” The two main takeaways for me were Dickinson’s unusual use of capitalization and punctuation. She always capitalizes pronouns, nouns, and some adjectives. Dickinson doesn’t use a lot of punctuation in the two poems. There are no periods at all, few commas, and m dashes to end each line.
EX: “My Faith must take away the Purple Wheel—“ Her constant use of capitalization helps connect important words and phrases, while also putting emphasis on important words. The use of m dashes help the readers to take a break and pause to reflect on each line. Especially with main themes of her faith, the use of reflection is necessary in her poems.

Capitalization and Rhyme Scheme- Ryan

wryan4 — 2019-02-01 00:11:48 UTC

The two Emily Dickinson poems I read were The Savior must have been, and The Whole of it came not at once. Throughout these two poems I came to discover the odd capitalization and odd rhyme schemes that Dickinson uses. In The Savior must have been, every noun and pronoun is capitalized while only the majority of nouns and pronouns are capitalized in The Whole of it came not at once. I found this odd because simple pronouns like “He” and “Himself” seem to take on a much greater meaning in the poems. The capitalization of these pronouns along with nouns such as “Boys” and “Hill” cause for a more in depth reading of each poem.
The rhyme schemes in these poems are also similar due to the fact that the end of each second line becomes the centerpiece for that poems rhyme scheme. For example in The Whole of it came not at once, the second line ends with “degrees” , and this is rhymed with throughout the whole poem, including in the last line. Then in The Savior must have been, the second line ends with “Gentleman” and this becomes the only rhymed line in the poem.

Capitalization and Dashes Dickinson

dmayer6 — 2019-02-01 13:48:58 UTC

Emily Dickinson uses strange capitalization and dashes through many of her poems for example “Gentleman”, “Day”, “Fellowmen”, and “Road” Fr1538. This is also found in the other poem that I looked at for example, “Night”, “Noon”, and “Nature” in the poem “Rests at Night”. This poem also shows alliteration with the constant use of the letter “n”. Dickinson also showcases her strange use of dashes in both of the poems I analyzed. In “Rests at Night” she says, “Nature - and some Men - Rest at Noon - some Men - While Nature And the Sun - go on -“. This is also shown in Fr1538 when she says, “A docile Gentleman - To come so far so cold a Day For little Fellowmen-.” Many of the dashes used in her poems are placed in very strange places within the poem.

Capitalization and Theme

dbright6 — 2019-02-01 13:53:15 UTC

The two poems that I read were Johnson 1487, Franklin 1538 and Fascicle 23 Sheet 4. Both poems have a theme featuring religion, specifically Christianity; in the Fascicle, it dealt with heaven and in the Johnson 1487 it dealt with Jesus' sacrifice. In regard to capitalization, the words that are capitalized are nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.

Ben Huber

2019-02-05 12:44:19 UTC

Emily Dickinson consistently uses odd placement of capitalization of nouns throughout her poems. Emily Dickinson also appears to utilize allegodashes throughout her many poems, possibly as a means of a certain meaning. Emily Dickinson also uses dashes throughout her many poems, possibly as a means of fodashes throughout her many poems, possibly as a means of accenting, or emphasizing specific lines or creating a separation between lines.

Theme

akeseling — 2019-02-05 13:03:31 UTC

The two poems that I read were the Fascicles 23 (Sheet 4) and Johnson 1487, and throughout those poems there was a theme of religion, but more to that it was the religion of Christianity. In the poem, the Fasicicles 23, it dealt with heaven, while in Johnson 1487 it talked about the sacrifice that Jesus went through and how he helped the Christian faith. When it comes to the poetry analysis, the rhyme scheme is similar throughout the poem going ABCA, and it continues on throughout all the stanzas.

From Blank

2019-02-05 13:10:24 UTC

Of the two poems I read, the only things they have in common is the capitalization at the beginning of the lines, and they both consist of dashes. They had different rhyme schemes, meter, and such things.

From Blank

cdrapes13 — 2019-02-05 13:29:21 UTC

Of the two poems I read, the only things they have in common are very minuscule things, that is the capitalization at the beginning of sentences and the use of dashes. They do not share meter or rhyme scheme.

Iambic Tetrameter/trimeter/pentameter and ABCB Rhyme Scheme- Chaikowsky

cchaikowsky — 2019-02-07 21:45:51 UTC

In my two selected poems from F.23 "My Faith is larger than the Hills" and "One and One- are One-" I found that both follow alternating iambic meters, and repeating rhyme schemes.
In "My Faith is larger than the Hills", the poem alternates between iambic tetrameter and trimeter, with the exception of the line "The Flowers would slumber on their Stems", which has nine syllables. The poem "One and One- are One-" similarly alternates between iambic pentameter and trimeter.
Initially, the un-con-ventional, Punctuation, and -dashes led Me to assume the Poems followed Form if at all, very loosely. After evaluating however, I see that they are very structured.

Both poems have ABCB rhyme schemes. Whereas each stanza of "My Faith is larger than the Hills" rhymes independently from the previous one (so ABCB, DEFE) paring the words "decay" and "way" in the first stanza and paring "Hill" and "Will" in the second, the poem "One and One- are One-" links the rhyming words in each stanza (so ABCB, DBEB) paring the words "using", "choosing", "everlasting", and "comprising".