Emily Dickinson Poetry By Erin M, Maddie H, Kathryn T, and Kathleen N

This is my letter to the World Death is a dialogue between

This Is my Letter to the World What can we infer? Emily has something to say to everyone Positive?Negative?

Four lines This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Four lines Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me *Two Stanzas*Eight Total Lines

This Is my letter to the World This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me

Who is speaking? Emily Dickinson? A boy? A girl? God?

A commission to serve? Desire to be heard? “This Is My letter to the World”  self reflective of work “never wrote to Me”  Never got impact desired “This Is My letter to the World”  self reflective of work “never wrote to Me”  Never got impact desired Story Mood

Personification “the simple News that Nature told” “(World) never wrote to me”

Relations of stanzas This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me Both discuss her assigned task from mother nature to deliver her message

Relations of stanzas This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me The instinct to write from nature

Relations of stanzas This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me Nature is her boss, its message is her duty She tried to relate this message to events in her life (like the civil war) Some don’t understand She seems secluded

Rhyme This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me Slant Rhyme True Rhyme

Rhythm? No Sir

This Is My Letter to the World This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me- The simple News that Nature told- With tender Majesty Her message is committed To Hands I cannot see- For love of Her- Sweet- countrymen- Judge tenderly- of Me Not too consist ent

Death is a dialogue between. Seems sad and depressing Shows Emily’s obsession with death Maybe a bit scary

Four lines Death is a dialogue between The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.” Four lines Death doubts it, argues from the ground. The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, An overcoat of clay. *Two Stanzas*Eight Total Lines

Death is a dialogue between DEATH is a dialogue between The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.” Death doubts it, argues from the ground. The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, An overcoat of clay.

Who is speaking? A witness to this fight maybe anyone

Story Someone dies Their soul meets death Death tries to dissolve the soul Soul fights against death Death is defeated by the soul

Mood Begins upsetting and scary with death saying “Dissolve,” In the second stanza, tensions between death and the spirit rise, and then the spirit overcomes death

Personification “Dissolve,” says Death The Spirit (says) “Sir I...” Death and the Spirit are talking like people Imagery “The Spirit turns away” “An overcoat of clay”

Death is a dialogue between DEATH is a dialogue between The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.” Death doubts it, argues from the ground. The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, An overcoat of clay. Both have a conversation between death and the spirit In the Stanzas

Death is a dialogue between DEATH is a dialogue between The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.” Death doubts it, argues from the ground. The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, An overcoat of clay. Death meets the spirit, begins wanting it to cease living A kind of fight or debate begins, the Spirit turns away from Death

Death is a dialogue between DEATH is a dialogue between dust. The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, trust.” I have another trust.” Death doubts it, argues from the ground. away The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, clay. An overcoat of clay. True Rhyme Rhym e

Death is a dialogue between DEATH is a dialogue between The spirit and the dust. “Dissolve,” says Death. The Spirit, “Sir, I have another trust.” Death doubts it, argues from the ground. The Spirit turns away, Just laying off, for evidence, An overcoat of clay. Not much rhythm Rhythm?