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Emily Dickson - Coggle Diagram

- - - - This idea presents an scary reality where a person who is believed to be dead could have to experience their own funeral from inside the coffin
        
        This idea was particularly scary to Dickson as a person who controls every part of their day
        
        through the poem it is shown many times that the speaker of this poem is the person inside the coffin, while their body is dead the brain is stuck in their body
      - the poem opens with the speaker talking about the funeral and how they can hear the mourners, "And mourners to and fro/ kept treading - treading
        
        the speaker then goes on to talk about the feeling inside the coffin as it was lifted by the pall-bearers, the speaker says it felt as if they were trampling on her soul with their "boots if lead", as the coffin is being moved the speaker is shaken around inside it, "then space - began to toll"
        
        As the speaker begins to feel the loneliness of this situation they describe it as if the silence and the speaker are trapped together forever in this moment "And I, and silence, some strange Race/ Wrenched, solitary, here"
        
        The final stanza of the poem brings us to the speakers grave, the speaker is drop down into the grave, as the speaker hits the ground, they cant explain the feeling they have so the sudden ending or the speakers brain was finally taken not letting them finish their poem
  - - - The poem opens with the speaker describing the air in the room
        
        the air is described as still as the stillness in between the heaves of the storm, the storm is a metaphor for the sorrow in the room
        
        the second stanza focuses on the people around the speaker, describing their "eyes around- had wrung dry" and holding their breathe, the speaker describes death as a king
        
        The people around the speaker have cried so much that there are no tears left. the people hold their breathe preparing themselves for the moment of death. death is the ultimate king with control over everyone
        
        the third stanzas is the speaker readying themselves to accept death when it comes, going over the things they did to prepare like setting up a will. while their we accepting death a fly interrupted.
        
        the speaker has "willed my keepsakes" and whatever parts of them they can leave on the mortal world, while content with their readiness something interrupts this, a fly buzzing by.
        
        In the final stanza the poem is derail by the fly and its interruption of the speakers peaceful death, the fly is described as coming "between the light -and me-"
        
        the fly is a symbol for the lose of control that comes with death, the realisation of the speakers lose of control is the fly coming between them and the peaceful death, so the speaker spends the final moments of their life distracted by the fly/ lose of control
      - the speaker is unable to focus on their peaceful passing as the get distracted by their sudden lose of control that is symbolised by the fly
  - - - The poem opens with the speaker describing hope as a bird that lives within our soul and it sings to us a "tune without the words"
        
        since the bird sings a song with no word it means hope is universal without a language
        
        The second stanza focuses again on the birds song and how sweet it is "in the gale", and how bitter the storm that could stop the bird from singing
        
        The speaker states that the birds song sounds "sweetest- in the Gale" it means hope is needed the most during difficult times like a storm or gale
        
        the speaker also says "sore must be the storm- that could abash the little bird" since the bird "never stop" the only thing that could stop the bird would be death.
        
        The final stanza focuses on the bird being with the speaker wherever they need it, in "the chillest land" and "the strangest seas". the speaker says that "never, in extremity, it asked a crumb- of me"
        
        the speaker talks about how even in the most extreme condition never does hope leave their side or ask for anything
  - - - The poem opens with the speaker describing the condition the woman/soul is in, "too appalled to stir" the woman then feels a ghastly fright come up to her
        
        in the second stanza the ghastly fright is revealed to be a goblin, this goblin is a symbol for anxiety or depression, this goblin does not care about the girl and arrives with out worry or care for the woman
        
        the goblin is described as sipping from the same lip that the lover hovers over, lover in this case means good things and happiness, with the contrast of the goblin and lover shows there are more moments of fear and anxiety then happiness.
        
        The third stanza focuses on the souls escape from the grasps of the goblin, it focuses on the souls happiness and sense of freedom. this feeling of freedom is described as the soul "dances like a bomb"
        
        the use of the word bomb suggest this freedom is explosive or violent as the soul breaks free of pass negative feelings to be free
        
        in the fourth stanza the souls freedom is being compared to the feeling a bee would have when he is reunite with his rose after being stuck in the hive for so long, "Long dungeoned from his rose"
        
        In the final stanza the soul is recapture by the goblin, she is led back to her prison, it is described as welcoming her back, "the horror welcomes her, again" The soul is described as having a staple driven into its song, this could link to "hope is a thing with feathers"
        
        The soul is described as having plumped feet meaning winged, this could show the souls ability to fly or soar, but the goblin knows about this and shackles the souls feet making it unable to fly, this could link to the bird in a persons soul mentioned in "hope is a thing with feathers" meaning the soul is unable to hope. lastly the horror are describe as being too awful to speak about "These, are not brayed of Tongue-" this shows the struggle people go through without being able to tell people
  - - - The poem opens with the speaker deciding what to get some, they are considering luxurious and exotic gifts but decides the person has enough of those.
        
        In the second stanza the speaker focuses on what they can give their lover, they have "berries of the Bahamas" but thinks a simple flower would represents the speaker better then these materialistic thing
        
        while the speaker may have things that are materialistic that they can give their lovers, they feel that a "little blaze" "in the meadow" would suit them better. the flower could be a buttercup one of Dickinson's favourite
        
        buttercups often go unnoticed for more popular flowers, may Dickinson felt like a buttercup herself so got the flower to represent her to the lover
        
        the speaker ends the poem by describing how nothing or no one could compare to the beauty of the buttercup, saying that the flower is so beautiful that it could be a dowry itself
        
        the speaker describes the yellows and greens of the flower with beautiful imagery
        "Never a Fellow matched this Topaz - and his Emerald swing"
        
        As the speaker is considering all these luxurious gift it most be for someone they care a lot about, and as the speaker mentions perfumes it can be assumed that the person is a woman, one hint of Emily Dickson's sexuality
      - the poem could also be about give yourself to a person completely as Dickinson give her love a buttercup a flower she loved and could be a symbol for herself
- - - - Many of the poems that focus on death have death as a process that take the persons sense with them slowly, while she isn't able to deicide how long the process takes
  - - - The bird as hope in "Hope is a thing with feathers"
        Dickinson find herself in a flower in "I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to"
        The only relief for the soul in "The Soul has Bandaged moments" is describes using nature
  - - - Her struggle to show the people she loves her affection is shown in "I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to" with her struggling to show her affection in a item
- - - - Dickson did not believe in god as much as her peers and questions god often throughout her poems.