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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Due Wednesday


Read the poem, "Thanatopsis" on page 202
Read the poem, "I heard a Fly buzz when I died" (379)

Then, create a brief Venn-ish diagram chart, that looks at similarities and differences between these two poems. Consider comparing things like, subject matter, verse form, diction, imagery, figurative language.

This will be similar to your Bradford/Smith chart and can be created as the three columns below, if you don't prefer to use the circles of a "real" Venn diagram.

Bryant
Bryant/Dickinson
Dickinson

Read and think about the following poems by Emily Dickinson:

"There's a Certain slant..." 369
"I never saw..." 374
"Tell all the Truth" 375
"I felt a Funeral" on page 378
"Because I could not stop"380
"The Bustle in a House" 383
"As imperceptibly" 386
"There is a solitude" 389
"This is my letter" 390


Also--

Just in case I forget to finish up the lecture on literary schools in the Romantic time period, here are the notes which we began in class last Thursday.
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