Good evening :)
It's hard to believe, but we are beginning our next to last week of class. Emily Dickinson is our next to last author. Walt Whitman will be the last.
At the beginning of Wednesday's class, I'll take some time to go over the readings we will cover for the final. The final will also include the presentations by Miriam, Sabina, and Fatu. Will we have others in class?
See the links below for the sonnets by Higginson, Dickinson's friend and "mentor":
It's interesting that none of the poets we've covered so far in EN 211 wrote sonnets. Of course, from John Milton in the late 1600s to William Wordsworth in the 1790s, sonnets were out of style.
In addition, here is some information about Dickinson's drafts:
What does this information tell you about her poetry? or poetry in general?
Discuss the style of Dickinson's poetry.
How does she express passion?
How does she describe nature?
Here is a class website on Romantic Writers and Natural History, ironically from Dickinson College: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/
What does this information tell you about how writers in the 1800s thought about nature? how Dickinson and/or Higginson thought about nature?
By the way, here are some poems by Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) who encouraged young women to study nature:
Compare these sonnets to Higginson's or to Dickinson's poems.
And we have not discussed Dickinson's poems about social isolation and death.
How does Dickinson's poetry evolve over time? What remains the same?
What does Dickinson tell us about the American landscape?
What is most American about Dickinson's poems? Why?
Am looking forward to hearing more of what you have to say about Dickinson's poems!
Have you submitted your evaluation yet?
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