English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emily Dickinson, Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes, Enjambment
18 Dec 2016
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Probably has darkest undertone of writers we"ve studied so far. Would have been more celebrated in another age. Younger than hawthorne, but writing at the same time. Because most calvinists think in deterministic way. Smart and rather unrecognized in her time. After the transcendentalists, trailing about 10 years. Very intense woman, put people on edge. Had a religious education but rejected its principles. This friction with establishments/institutions carried on her whole life. Early love interest died early at 20. Her father died in the middle of her life. Questions about lesbian desire in her writing. Specific formal way of creating her poetry and three beats it. Enjambment: syntactical technique of running past the conventional stoic place of a line or a stanza break. Does it give you the sense that something is wrong. Look at when she goes toward a formal order and when she goes away from.
