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ESSAY PLANSSuspected Poems:
- Funeral
- Summer’s Full
- For it was not death
Possible themes:
- Mental anguish
- Suffering
- Nature (beauty/power?)
- Love/marriage
- Women/expectations
- Death
Possible pairings:
- Bold are the ones that contain unasked poems!
She rose to his requirement vs I’m Wife naoise did this?
It was not death vs Funeral
Fly Buzz vs I could not stop for death-
Because I could not stop for death vs the last night that she lived I HAVE AN ESSAY
FOR THIS, ill email yous it
Fly buzz vs the last night that she lived
The old mountains vs An awful tempest
An awful tempest vs certain slant
I cannot live with you vs There came a day at summer’s full naoise did this?
It was not death vs one need not be a chamber
Chamber vs certain slant of light
Chamber vs funeral
Certain slant of light vs funeral
Certain slant of light vs It was not death, for I stood up
There came a day at summer’s full vs certain slant- RELIGION.
,Explore how She rose to His Requirement and I’m “wife” - I’ve finished that - explore theme
of marriage/relationships (could also easily be wiggled into identity ie loss of speaker’s
identity due to the relationship/marriage)
SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
INTRO
Both discuss the effects marriage has on
women.
Both compare state of girlhood with
‘wifehood’
STRUCTURE STRUCTURE
- Both 3 quatrains - short, confined - Im “wife”
reflects confinement of - Contains slant rhyming couplets
marriage/relationship “that…state…now…so”
- Both utilise changes in rhyme - Exact rhyme in final stanza final
scheme in the final stanza to convey couplet “Compare?...there!”
a sense of finality/acceptance…(?)
VOICE
I’m “wife”
- 1st person female, dramatic
monologue - microcosm of married
woman life (whatever that means.
Does anyone know what that
means?)- universal element
Dickinson never married, decided in 1862
she would never marry, “wife” written in
1861, “She rose” written 1863
She rose
- 3rd person - unidentified “he” and
“she”, universal
- use of 3rd person suggests the
woman has no voice + the sadness
she feels in her marriage is so
strong that others can visibly see it
Because Dickinson never married, we can
assume she is the narrator commenting
critically on how marriage affects women
from an outside perspective
TITLE/ FIRST STANZA
Both employ a satirical tone
I’m “wife”
- “I’m “wife - I’ve finished that -”
Reductionist title + speech marks -
society?
- Rep of “that” - dismissive,
, attempting to downplay her
past/girlhood
- Rep of “I’m” - equates “wife” with
“Czar” and “Woman”(Czar - until
1917, the emperor of Russia; more
generally someone of authority) -
juxtaposition, hyperbolic metaphor,
suggests role of wife + connection to
husband bestows some
privilege/recognition/maturity,
women can’t be Czar - satirical tone
- “It's safer so -” suggests role of wife
offers security however is still not
preferable, sibilance creates
mocking tone
She rose
- “She rose to His Requirement -
dropt” - Capitalised “His” and
“Requirement” - domineering,
demanding, godlike? Likened to
christ? Idk
- “Rose” offset and juxtaposed by
“dropt” - changing herself to be
accepted, not good enough normally
+ her old self not good enough
- Enjambment “dropt // The Playthings
of Her Life” creates distance + noun
‘playthings’ childlike quality,
downplaying her past life/girlhood
- “honorable Work // Of Woman, and of
Wife -” alliteration creates sarcastic
tone + assonance = slow, drawn out -
mundanity
THIS IS TOO ANNOYING TO RETYPE IM
JUST GONNA PUT PICTURES IN
ANYTHING WRITTEN INBETWEEN
U crazy
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