ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emily Dickinson, Free Verse, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How much can you do until you"ve had enough? (eg. the narrator and. What does it do to individual creativity: answer: all these questions pertain to emily dickinson, who writes about society and the individual. Whitman: whitman writes in free verse and prose"s-like verse, dickinson writes in a ballad form (4 line stanzas that have regular metre iambic tetrameter"). The ballad form is common in pub songs, hymns, nursery rhymes, etc : whitman"s lines are long! Who are you?" (288: dickinson"s to be a nobody sounds like bartleby, the 1st stanza could be implying that she is a non-conformist. A nobody is someone who doesn"t conform to the standards of being a. Somebody. : she breaks up her flow with dashes. The dashes could isolate the wording of the sentence. Dashes also interrupt the major flow of the poem: she doesn"t want to be isolated she doesn"t want an isolated society, whitman gives us public and private aspects.
