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"So huge, so hopeless to conceive,

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell."

-"My life closed twice before its close" Emily Dickinson

"Mind not the timid--mind not the weeper of prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let no the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums-- so loud you bugles blow"

-"BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!" Walt Whitman 1861

Pro War Example

"Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,) Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind, Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me that the battle-field spreading"

-"VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT"

Walt Whitman 1891-92

Anti War Example

"And he was always quietly arrayed

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked."

-" Richard Cory" Edwin Arlington Robinson

"But I work in his factory

And I curse the life im living

And I curse my poverty

And I wish that I could be,

Oh, I wish that I could be,

Oh, I wish that I could be

Richard Cory."

-" Richard Cory" Simon and Garfunkel

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Historical Connection:

  • Economic Depression in the late 1800s
  • Social gap between the rich and the poor
  • "Richard Cory"
  • In this poem Robinson displays the opinions of the poor towards the rich.
  • Through diction Robinson almost appears to be sympathetic towards the wealthy because of their lack of social interaction
  • "imperially"
  • "fluttered pulses"
  • "glittered"

Walt Whitman

Simon and Garfunkel

Historical Connection:

  • Civil War
  • Earlier poems: Whitman conveys he is pro war.
  • "BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!"
  • Whitman displays his patriotism through symbols such as the drums and bugle horns.
  • Later poems: readers can see Whitman's transition from pro war to anti war.
  • He realized how much devastation the Civil War had caused for his country.
  • "VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT"
  • While paying tribute to the many fallen soldiers, this poem also conveys the many hardships of the war which make Whitman appear anti war.
  • Whitman's poetry is also found to be confusing and overwhelming which partly convey his confusion over his sexuality.

Historical Connection:

  • Like Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel also portrayed the economic depression in the late 1800s
  • "Richard Cory" (song)
  • Gives the audience a contrast opinon over the social issue
  • Displays the harsh opinons of the poor factory workers
  • Use of imagery paints the feelings of the angered and hungry factory workers
  • They'd rather be dead than living in poverty.

General and

Central Ideas

Overview

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Individualism

Walt Whitman

Historical connection to war

Robinson and Simon and Garfunkel

Historical connection to poverty

Individualism:

  • She kept to herself for the majority of her life.
  • Her poems expressed her personality.
  • Pessimistic
  • "My life closed twice before its close"
  • Dickinson seems to have experienced a series of traumatic events
  • She lived a sad and lonely life
  • She likes taking the easy ways out
  • Dickinson conveys that Hell is the easier way out.
  • Dickinson's poetry was confusing and random which could also be linked to her personality.

All of the previous poets expressed themselves and their opinions through a variety of different ways which each characterized who they were.

Multimedia Literary Reflection

Emily Shady Block Period 1

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