Emily Dickenson

Emily Dickenson

1. I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed

   • Themes
     • Nature
     • Death
     • Religeon
   • The poem makes you imagine is the speaker is a bird
   • ABAB rhyming scheme
   • One of Dickenson's happier poems
   • Metaphor
     • White flowers called drinking cups
   • Alliteration
     • Little Tippler
     • Seraphs swing their snowy hat
   • Assonance
     • Endless summer

2. Hope Is A Thing With Feathers

   • Didactic Poem
     • Teaching us a lesson
       • Don't give up hope is always there
   • Hope is abstract yet Dickenson makes it sound concrete like a bird
   • No grammar rules
     • Dashes
     • CAPITALS
   • Contrast in Stanza 2
     • Bleek Storm VS Warmth
   • Personal poem
     • Pronoun 'I'
   • Themes
     • Hardship
     • Hope

3. There's A Certain Slant of Light

   • Themes
     • Anguish
     • Depression
     • Nature
       • Landscape listens
   • Negative view of god & religeon
   • Imagery
     • Winter sunlight presented as something solid
   • Personification describes the atmosphere of nervous tension that fill the landscape with light

4. I Felt A Funeral in My Brain

   • Imagined
     • Mindscape
   • Theme
     • Mental Anguish
   • Personification
     • Pronoun 'I'
   • Dominated by funeral imagery
   • Wrote in a difficult time of her life
   • Capitals Highlight the experience
     • Mouners
     • Drum
     • Brain
   • Ends on a cliffhanger

5. A Soul Has Bandaged Moments

   • Themes
     • Mental Anguish
     • Depression
     • Suffering
       • "Bandaged Moments"
   • The soul when happy compared to a honey bee
     • Bee kept away from the rose bush
   • Happiness is short lived
     • Depression returns
       • Compared to capturing a criminal
         • "The horror welcomes her again"
   • Imagery
     • Erotic nature
       • "Caress her freezing hair"
       • "Sip goblin from the very lips the lover - hovered o'er"
     • Simile
       • "When Felkon led along with shackles on the plumed feet and staples in the song"