Re: [후기] the selected poems of Emily Dickinson

[Sylvi]

Unit 1: The Chariot & The Fly — Encounters with Death and Immortality

This unit explores Dickinson's most famous subject. But she doesn't just see death as a scary ending. For her, it's a journey, an interruption, a philosophical problem, and a state of being.

Core Poems:

* 1. Because I could not stop for Death –

* 12. I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –

* 14. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

* 7. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –

* 16. A Clock stopped –

Unit 2: The Soul's Society — Identity, Madness, and the Individual

Dickinson was a recluse, but she had a rich inner life. These poems explore the power of the individual against the pressures of society, fame, and conformity.

Core Poems:

* 5. I'm Nobody! Who are you?

* 18. The Soul selects her own Society –

* 4. Much Madness is divinest Sense –

* 3. Success is counted sweetest

* 11. I like a look of Agony

* 24. This is my letter to the World

Unit 3: A Liquor Never Brewed — The Ecstasy and Terror of Nature

Nature was Dickinson's church, her laboratory, and her companion. She observes it with a scientist's eye and a mystic's heart, finding both sublime beauty and bone-chilling terror.

Core Poems:

* 6. I taste a liquor never brewed –

* 13. A narrow Fellow in the Grass

* 20. A Bird came down the Walk –

* 19. A Route of Evanescence

* 21. The Wind – tapped like a tired Man –

* 22. It sifts from Leaden Sieves –

Unit 4: The Brain and The Heart — Charting the Inner Landscape

These poems are psychological maps. Dickinson explores abstract emotions like hope, pain, grief, and faith, giving them shape, weight, and texture.

Core Poems:

* 23. The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

* 2. "Hope" is the thing with feathers –

* 9. Pain – has an Element of Blank –

* 15. I measure every Grief I meet

* 25. The Heart asks Pleasure – first –

* 17. There's a certain Slant of light

* 8. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –

* 10. Faith is a fine invention

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1. What was your overall feeling after reading this collection? Are you a poetry reader?

3. Why do you think her work has become so famous and beloved? Do you think she wanted to be famous during her life time?

4. At first, did you find the dashes or capitalization distracting?

Unit 1

1. Of the poems about death, which one left the most powerful impression on you, and why?

Unit 4.

1. If you choose any other mataphor to describe hope than a bird, what would it be?

Unit 3. 

1. Which portrait of nature captivated you the most?

참석자: Sylvi, Soberas, Aoi, Jodi, Elina

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[aoikaori]

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