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Why does she use the dash?
·​ ​To indicate an interruption or an abrupt shift in thought
·​ ​Parenthetical device for emphasis
·​ ​Substitute for a colon
·​ ​Indicate a final appositive
o​ ​I
...
Mr
...

·​ ​Indicate an air of uncertainty or indecisiveness
·​ ​Connect and separate thoughts
·​ ​Uses the dash as a falling away
Why does she capitalize so much?
·​ ​Adds emphasis
·​ ​Helps us retain the idea
·​ ​Very familiar and very well verse in German, almost all nouns are capitalized in German
What kind of poems does she write?
·​ ​Definitions
·​ ​Riddles
·​ ​Declarations
·​ ​Landscape descriptions
·​ ​Tales, parables, and allegories
·​ ​Requests
·​ ​Complaints
·​ ​Confessions
·​ ​Prayers
How should we read Dickinson’s poems?
·​ ​Consider the speaker
o​ ​Is it first person? 2​nd​ person? 3​rd​ person?
·​ ​Consider to whom the poem is addressed
·​ ​What is the setting/situation?
·​ ​Is it real? Is it Abstract?
·​ ​Is there any action in the poem? If there is what is the action?
·​ ​Consider the verbs
·​ ​Mood of the verbs
o​ ​Indicative​- used to make factual statements or pose questions
o​ ​Subjunctive​- to show a wish, doubt, or anything else contrary to fact
o​ ​Interrogative​- to express a request or command
·​ ​Are any of the verbs archaic (unusual)
·​ ​What is the form of the poem?
·​ ​Where does she depart from those forms?
Tone​- the attitude of the speaker towards the subject
·​ ​Objective, mournful, joyful, irreverent, solemn, playful



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