Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Emily Dickinson
- I taste a liquor never brewed
- "Inebriate of air – am I – And
Debauchee of Dew – "
- reckless, indulgent joy/pleasure;
Nature theme
- "inns of molten Blue –"
- metaphor, nature
- "When Butterflies – renounce their
“drams” – I shall but drink the more!"
- appreciate the
beauty of nature
until she can no
more; joyfully
determined;
experience summer
to the excess
- "To see the little Tippler Leaning
against the – Sun!"
- Alcohol is a metaphor for her happiness;
Dash signifies never-ending
happiness/summer; heaven
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers
- Hope=free, delicate/frail,
never-ending, sustaining,
selfless.. Personified to make
it tangible (physical
manifestation)
- “Hope” is the thing
with feathers -
That perches in
the soul -
- transcends words,
permanently present deep
in our being
- And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
- courageous, cannot be
"abashed", it's song is
sweetest in the deepest
times of turmoil; sympathy is
shown for the fragile little
"bird"
- I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
- represents troubled times in terms os
landscape; showing the great difficulties she
suffered in her life (struggled with illness and
depression)
- Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a
crumb - of Me.
- personal reference, hope is selfless and makes no
demands, never=absolute, full-stop=certainty
(rare for Dickinson)
- There's a certain Slant of light
- sombre mood,Earthly
suffering for Heavenly
salvation, meditating her
mortality
- That oppresses, like the
Heft Of Cathedral Tunes –
- Simile; heaviness, weighed
down, melancholy, solemnity,
seriousness
- But internal difference –
Where the Meanings, are –
- yet no physical evidence of pain, it
is the realisation deep within that
matters
- Heavenly Hurt
- paradoxical, intense awareness of
mortality/dying, this causes hurt for
the poet
- 'Tis the seal Despair –
An imperial affliction
- Despair= strong, powerful;
caused by a superior
authority/supreme power?
- When it goes, 'tis like the
Distance On the look of Death –
- tense; maintain and
intensify the gloomy mood;
once the moment of
oppression is gone death
seems far away once more
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
- Rhythmic pattern, repetition,
painful/strange experience,
turmoil of Dickinson's mind,
personal=use of "I" and "my"
- And Mourners to and
fro Kept treading -
treading -
- harshness,
restlessness, unease
(repetition), first
indication of
"breaking"-
breakdown/breaking
of reason
- Kept beating - beating - till I
thought My mind was going
numb -
- Rhyming of "drum" and
"numb" gives a sense of one
leading to another,
repetition=emotional pain
- creak across my
Soul With those
same Boots of Lead,
again,
- mourners seem to cause pain, harsh/severe
sounds, sense of inescapable, increasing pain
- And I, and Silence, some
strange Race,
- "wrecked, solitary",
loneliness, strange and
silent intensity, increasing
isolation, sense of being
different/abnormal
- And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
- vivid immediacy, horrifying sight,
downward spiral into depression?
poem finished with a dash leaving a
sense of uncertainty of the future
- I heard a fly buzz - when I died
- the buzzing fly is a
distraction, trivializes
a serious/unique
moment, stillness is
ominous
- like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
- Simile, eerily calm, unsure, anticipation of
something violent/shocking
- The Eyes around - had
wrung them dry - And
Breaths were gathering
firm
- impersonal, waiting with bated
breath for the next stage of the
death/decay process
- Signed away What portion
of me be Assignable
- lucid, calm, wry (dry humour) until a fly "interposed"
- uncertain stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - and me -
- sense of chaos and directionless, fly
signifies the first dying of the light
- And then the Windows failed -
and then I could not see to see -
- ending is dark, silent, isolate. no sense of hope,
does not entertain the possibility of immortality
- The Soul has Bandaged moments
- investigation of the human
condition (intangible)
->hope. Fright is
personified. Contrast
between suffering and joy
- She feels some ghastly Fright come
up And stop to look at her -
- fright is a threatening presence, the soul is
personified as "She" and is seen as vulnerable
- Sip, Goblin, from the very lips
The Lover - hovered - o'er -
- unrequited love? cause for the soul to be
wounded/bandaged? negative over takes postive
- As do the Bee - delirious borne -
- the soul has escaped its confines, it is "abroad", and
flying with excitement. Vivid contrast to earlier poems
- With shackles on the
plumed feet, And
staples, in the song,
- physical manifestation evokes a
sympathetic response in the reader.
The soul seems imprisoned,
hindered like a felon
- The Horror welcomes her, again,
These, are not brayed of Tongue -
- soul reverts to place of horror.
Suggestion of how impossible
it is to speak of her moments
of depression/pain