Clarify the characteristic and writing style of Emily Dickinson by analyzing Poems of Nature:

1. Theme
- Usually is about nature, love, hope, and even death. She used images from nature,
religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities to probe
universal themes: the wonders of nature, the identity of the self, death and
immortality, and love. In this lesson, we learn about how she describes the nature.
+ Nature is what we see: the definition of nature in the eyes of Emily
+ How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights: describe the way of a wind in nature.
Through the image of the Wind, the author wants to talk about herself, her feelings and
her distant dreams.
+ The Wind begun to rock the grass: a description of the nature before a storm, under the
eyes of Emily

2. Form and Style

a. Form: Dickinson’s poems are lyrics, generally defined as short poems with a single
speaker who expresses thought and feeling:
+ Nature is wws: Emily herself is explaining the definition of nature in her eyes
+ How lonesome The wind: plays as the wind to describe itselfs
+ The wind begun: speaking in the third person role to describe nature
b. Style: describe abstract concepts with concrete images. In many Dickinson poems,
abstract ideas and material things are used to explain each other, but the relation between
them remains complex and unpredictable:

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Turns nature into imaginable figures
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The sky = temple tall

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The dust in the storm = hands

3. Metre and Rhyme

a. Metre – or the rhythm of the poem:
- Emily Dickinson experimented with a variety of metrical and stanzaic forms,
including short meter (6686) and the ballad stanza. As in the three poems here, each
poem has a different stanza form, most are ballad, only the first is following a form.
b. Rhyme
- As with meter, Dickinson’s employment of rhyme is experimental and often not
exact. Rhyme that is not perfect is called “slant rhyme” or “approximate rhyme.”
+ In the 3rd poem, for example, we would expect

“nest” to rhyme with “barns” and “hands”

- Aside of that, Emily also used normal foot rhyme as in the first poem, we can see
the “ee” sound like “see”, “bee” “sea” are rhymed.

4. Punctuation and Syntax

- Dickinson most often punctuated her poems with dashes, rather than the more
expected array of periods, commas, and other punctuation marks.
+ the dashes are easily read as moments in which the speaker was overwhelmed or
thinking hard before proceeding. The pauses represent a desire to create drama and
 tension in the text. It is also a way for the reader, speaker, and even Dickinson herself,
to gather thoughts together before moving on to the next line.

: dashes appear a lot in Emily’ works.

- One should also consider the use of capitalization in these lines: This is another
technique that Dickinson is known for, and which causes confusion among students
and scholars alike. There is no single definitive reason why Dickinson capitalized on
the words she did. Often, the words she chose were the most prominent of the lines,
the ones that were the most evocative and meaningful.

5. Rhetorical devices:
- Most of the rhetorical devices used in Emily’ works above are impersonalizing and
metaphor:

+ In Nature is wws: : describe nature as a women, referring

as “her”
+ How lonesome: the Wind is describes with adjective to describe human: lonesome,
pompous, mighty  understand the strength, the level of wind in each time of the
day.
Moreover, using human’ verbs: stepping, correcting,..
+ Same as The wind begun to rock…: the wind refer as He, rocking the grass, menace
to earth and sky,….
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