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EMILY DICKINSON pag.296. - Coggle Diagram
EMILY DICKINSON pag.296.
SHE WAS BORN IN 1830 IN MASSACHUSSETTS, FROM A
MIDDLE-CLASS PURITAN FAMILY
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SHE RECEIVED A RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN A FEMALE SEMINARY. UNTIL SHE REFUSED TO DECLARE HER FAITH IN PUBLIC, AS REQUIRED BY THE PURITAN TRADITION, AND THEN SHE DECIDED TO INTERRUPT HER STUDIES AND RETURN HOME.
SHE BEGAN A LIFE OF SECLUSION, SHE ONLY WORE WHITE CLOTHES AS SYMBOL OF SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE AND SINGLENESS.
SHE HID HER MIND AND HER PERSON FROM ALL BUT THE MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HER SISTER LAVINIA AND A FEW FRIENDS TO WHOM SHE WROTE WONDERFUL LETTERS.
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DICKINSON'S THEME WERE: DEATH, LOVE, GOD, NATURE. SHE WAS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND ALMOST OBSESSED WITH DEATH: SHE EVEN WROTE ABOUT HER OWN DEATH.
DEATH WAS A GREAT MISTERY, CONNECTED WITH ETERNITY. IT IS ALSO SEEN AS A LIBERATION OF ANXIETY, AND THE PLACE WERE HUMAN BEINGS TEND TO , IN ORDER TO BECOME ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE.
THE THEME OF LOVE IS EXPLORED IN HIS VARIOUS ASPECTS. TOGETHER WITH DEATH, IS SEEN AS A WAY TO GET ETERNITY.
NATURE IS VERY IMPORTANT IN HER POEMS. AND HER STUDIES IN SCIENCE ALSO CONTRIBUTED. WE FIND IT IN SMALL ELEMENTS, A SPIDER, A BIRD, A BLADE OF GRASS, A BEE, THAT CONSTANTLY SYMBOLISES THE POET AND IN HER ATTENTION TO VERY SIMPLE DETAILS.
ABOUT HER STYLE, HER POEMS ARE GENERALLY SHORT, ORGANISED IN QUATRAINS, AND WITHOUT TITLE.
SHE USES A VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE, FREE RHYME AND THE DASH, TO PLACE EMPHASIS ON WHAT HAD JUST BEEN SAID OR ON THE PHRASES THAT ARE PLACED AFTER..
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS IS A LYRICAL POEM, A TYPE OF POEM THAT EXPRESSES THE PERSONAL FEELINGS OF THE SPEAKER REGARDING HOPE
EVERY HUMAN NEEDS HOPE BECAUSE IT'S WHAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO FIND A REASON AND CONTINUE LIVING EVEN WHEN WE ARE FEELING DOWN.
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FEATHERS REPRESENT HOPE BECAUSE THEY ALLOW US TO FLY, TO BE FREE AND HAPPY, WHILE DESPAIR IS A TERRIBLE WEIGHT FOR OUR SOUL.
HOPE IS COMPARED TO A SMALL BIRD THAT SINGS A TUNE EVEN IN THE MOST POWERFUL STORM. ITS SONG CAN BE HEARD OVER THE STRANGEST SEA, COLDEST LANDS AND IN THE WORST STORMS.
THE POEM HAS THREE STANZAS. IN THE FIRST STANZA, THE SPEAKER STATES THAT HOPE IS A CREATURE WITH FEATHERS THAT LIVES IN THE SOUL AND THIS CREATURE SINGS AN UNENDING AND WORDLESS SONG.
IN THE SECOND STANZA, THE SPEAKER STATES THAT THE SONG CAN BE HEARD EVEN DURING STORM AND THAT THE SONG KEEP PEOPLE WARM.
EMILY DICKINSON'S WORK IS INFLUENCED BY THE AMERICAN ROMANTICS AND, IN THIS POEM, SHE USES NATURE TO DESCRIBE HOPE.
IN THE FINAL STANZA, THE SPEAKER STATES THAT SHE HAS HEARD THE BIRD SING IN ESPECIALLY COLD PLACES AND VERY STRANGE SEAS. AND, EVEN IN THE MOST EXTREME CONDITIONS, THE CREATURE/HOPE, HAS NEVER ASKED FOR ANYTHING IN RETURN.
THE SPEAKER ALSO USES ANAFORA (THE REPETITION OF THAT, AND), TO EMPHASIZE THE POINT AND TO DESCRIBE HOW THE BIRDSONG CAN BE HEARD EVEN DURING A STORM.
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