Artifact 4: Emily Dickinson Poem Analyses

Poem 95: Dickinson shows her introverted side in this poem through her identification with the subject (“I’ve known her”) and her great imagery used almost as rhetoric (“close(s) themselves of her attention like Stone”)

Poem 112: I think in this poem Dickinson really opposes the institution of the Church through her example “God preaches, a note Clergyman, and the sermon is never too long”, She cunningly (and witfully) points out that you won’t count the minutes til the sermon ends when God is showing you the beauty of his creations.

Poem 122: Dickinson beautifully shows the process of a heartbreak and letting go through her final sentence “First Chill, then stupor, then letting go”. She beautifully plays off of the freezing persons analogy to explain her feelings

Poem 172: Dickinson seems to be trying to connect her countrymen, who go about receiving the grace of the Lord (perhaps through institutionalized churches), comparing their experiences with hers as she has reckonings with the Lord through Nature.

Poem 184: The author paints a picture of fleeting moments before death with the fly as a metaphor for uncertainty clinging to the tile, and then the person laying passes away noting the transition of human senses as the person moves to a higher place.

Poem 262: Dickinson eloquently shows the great capacity of human perception through the understanding of nature given to mankind by a higher power.