No vocab
Breaking down poem lit terms:
cacophony- sounds that clash when said out loud
euphony is the antynym of cacophony.....examples here:
The following poem was used as a rhetorical writing prompt. Instead of writing to respond to the prompt, analyze (SOAPS, DISS TP, poem strategies) with a group of no more than three people. Respond as a group and include everyone's name.
1991
Read carefully the following poem by Emily Dickinson. Then write an essay in which you describe the
speaker’s attitude toward the woman’s death.
Using references to the text, show how the use of language reveals the
speaker’s attitude.
The last Night that She
lived
It
was a Common Night
Except
the Dying—this to Us
Made
Nature different
5 We
noticed smallest things—
Things
overlooked before
By
this great light upon our Minds
Italicized—as
‘twere
As
We went out and in
10 Between
Her final Room
And
Rooms where Those to be alive
Tomorrow
were, a Blame
That
Others could exist
While
She must finish quite
15 A
Jealousy for Her arose
So
nearly infinite—
We
waited while She passed—
It
was a narrow time—
Too
jostled were Our Souls to speak
20 At
length the notice came.
She
mentioned, and forgot—
Then
lightly as a Reed
Bent
to the Water, struggled scarce—
Consented,
and was dead—
25 And
We—We placed the Hair—
And
drew the Head erect—
And
then an awful leisure was
Belief
to regulate—
Eric, David, Ben
ReplyDeleteSubject- Death of a woman related to the speaker
DeleteOccasion- night, end of a life
Audience- Anyone interested in the happenings of that night
Purpose- inform about events of the night, remember feelings
Speaker- relative of dying woman
D- Poetic Diction
DeleteI- occoured on the "Common night"/ Her Hair
S- 7 stanzas of 4 lines each
S- incomplete scentences, but mostly coherent thoughts.
T- creates a gloomy tone
P- evoke feelings/ remember past events
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DeleteQuatrain
DeleteSyllable Pattern 6686
Dialect
Imagery
khai Ian
ReplyDeleteS- human within close range of dying girl
ReplyDeleteO-Death of the girl
A-People who have felt this sorrow
P-to illustrate the emotions during death
S- the death of the girl
Elision
DeleteEpithet
Personification
Analogy
Emma, Ricardo, Shelby
ReplyDeleteAllegory
Epithet
Syllable sequence 6-8-6
elision
Caesura
Personification
Euphemism
Purpose
Audience is those who have experienced the death of a loved one
Occasion is at night
Death is the subject
The tone is dark and sad, causes someone to think about death
Subject - Death of a Woman
ReplyDeleteOccasion - "Common Night" in "Nature"
Audience - General Audience, but specifically those who have dealt with loss
Purpose - Provide an account of the lamentations caused by death and the true extent of the mourning and sorrow that follows
Speaker - Emily Dickinson
Diction - Simplistic and less sophisticated; able to be understood by all readers
Imagery - "She mentioned, and forgot/Then lightly as a Reed/Bent to the Water, struggled scarce/Consented, and was dead" and "We placed the Hair/And drew the Head erect"
Syntax - Short, choppy phrases, connected in a story-like form (rhyme scheme is essentially nonexistent and the relationship of words helps to create a remorseful tone)
Structure - Stanzas of four lines (quatrain)
Tone - Remorseful/Despairing
Purpose - (See Above)
Poem Strategies:
-Analogy (death is compared to a "great light upon our Minds")
-Cacophony ("struggled scarce")
-Connotation ("leisure")
-Figure of Speech ("And Rooms were Those to be alive")
-Paradox ("Then lightly as a Reed, Bent to the Water, struggled scarce")
*Michael Yannetti
*Ryan Althoff
Grace Boudreau and Stefany Wolf
ReplyDeleteS- The woman's death
O- Her last night alive
A- Mourning people
P- To describe the effects of her death
S- Emily Dickinson
Poetry Strategies
-Imagery
-Euphemism: "She must finish quite."
-Quatrain
-Irony: "It was a common night/except the dying"
-Falling meter: Goes from stressed to unstressed syllables
Speaker- Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteOccasion- Mid 19th century
Audience- Someone interested in dark poetry
Purpose-To illustrate the last day in the life of a woman.
Subject- The Woman's death
Diction- She uses fractured sentence structure and strong word choice.
Imagery- Jostled our souls
Structure- Stanzas
Syntax- Old timey English
Tone- Sullen
Purpose- to illustrate the death of a woman.
Imagery, caesura, cacophony, enjambment, elision, feminine rhyme, and euphony.
I would say that the poem is largely about Emily Dickinson's struggle with suicide and her decision to commit suicide. The she in the title of the poem is Ms. Dickinson herself, not some other inanimate person. The poem is about noticing the small things in life that would usually be missed except that now that life is no longer, they all come flowing in. The tone is somewhat sad but also with a hint of relief over the fact that it is finally over.
Drew and John.
ReplyDeleteFirst person recollection of a group presiding over the final moments and death of an unspecified woman.
Major theme-death.
Tone of calm despair.
Expression of depression, "jealousy for her."
Expression of the sudden depth of surroundings in the wake of death.
Imagery/Metaphor; detail- "lightly as a reed bent to the water"
Description of personal feelings in the face of death-"too jostled were our souls..."
Madi, Elena, and Arin Stonr
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about the narrator witnessing a woman's death and her emotions while seeing her pass away.
Tone- objectively melancholic
Leah, Emma, and Amanda
ReplyDeleteThe tone is dark and mysterious.The poem is about the death of a woman. The poem uses distinct imagery and detailed descriptions on what occurred.
Tyler, Olivia and Janet
ReplyDeleteThe speakers attitude toward the women's death shows that the speaker is envious. Talking about death from the view point of a hospital patient and "we" stands for all the patients. We say imagery and similies and much more.
Jason Gill Katie
ReplyDeleteAbout: an objective view of death and appreciation and longing for the feelings and emotions that come with death without the ultimate commitment. Addresses humanity and indifference to death. Heightened sense of goings-on around them, disturbing realizations about society.
allegory
detached despair
imagery
personification