Blog post due: Choose any question (from samples posted on the blog) that you have not yet worked on yet and write an answer to it based on only Emily Dickinson's poems. Due by class time!!
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the place of the individual in the larger human community. In the work of at least two poets,
explore the ways in which poems have conveyed the poet’s sense of the world beyond the private
sphere.
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Dickinson talks a lot about her hopes and dreams, but because of her fears she is confined to her room and the only way that Dickinson is able to reach the public and try and leave her desired impact is through her writing and her poetry. In one of Dickinson's' poems, she writes "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain" Dickinson wants to leave an impact on not only the people that were close to her, imaginably only some of her family, but the whole world. She goes on to write "to cool one pain, to help one fainting robin, into his nest again" Here Dickinson is making a connection that I feel many would dismiss from her. Because of Dickinson and her lifestyle, I felt that she might have been seen as cold or lacking in a maternal nature because of the female pressures of the time, all of her expectations were changed and adding this careful line that speaks to a more feminine dainty element. I thought that this was a line where Dickinson also wanted to relate to her audience in a way she might not have before. IN another one of her poems Dickinson also talks about "Water is taught by thirst" and later goes onto saying "Peace, by battles told" Dickinson wasn't someone who would have been given a large education, much less one that would have had high levels of human interaction. By talking about "peace" and "Battles" it talks a lot about Dickinsons having to teach herself in a lot of ways when living alone and without the help of anybody else. I also think that it is Dickinson talking a good portion about having to learn to live with her fear and her loneliness and how that affects her life and her happiness. Because of Dickinsons fears and her own sustainable lifestyle that worked for her she had to make sacrifices and often times she had to either get rid of dreams or find ways around them. Because of this Dickinson used her outlet to reach out and give inspiration to the public and find a way to accomplish her dreams, overall I think Dickinson let a lot of insight into her life through her poems and that it tells a story of a girl who is alone but desperately trying to leave a wide impact on the world.
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