Gabby driessnack
This week we focused on the poem, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, by Emily Dickinson. This is a very deep poem, every time we talked about it, we seemed to find a new meaning. We also looked at imagery in the poem. The types of imagery are visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, organic, tactile, and kinesthetic. We discussed what the speaker might be going through and how the events in the poem can represent what she is mentally experiencing. Imagery is very important in a poem because it helps the reader relate to the context. If the poem is describing a certain smell, it makes it easy for us to imagine that smell too. Explication of a poem can show you specific details that may not have jumped out at you when initially reading it. We also discussed the author of this poem, Emily Dickinson. Emily's poems were found in a drawer and published after she died. None of her poems had names, so they were named the first line of the poem. Although Emily is now dead, a part of her is kept alive because her poems are so deep. It gives you a good idea of who Emily was because her poetry shows such a unique side of herself. This is a good step by step example of how to explicate a poem. https://engl.utoledo.edu/english/?page_id=733 xoxo, Gabby
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Josephine
10/11/2016 05:42:16 am
Hi Gabby,
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Gabby DriessnackSenior at MPHS. Archives
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