1. What are the main emotions, thoughts and feelings shown in the poem and how are these presented to the reader?
As Imperceptibly as Grief L/O: to explore themes, language and context in the poem
How is the summer fading used as a metaphor in the poem?
The Title
Dictionary Challenge:
What does imperceptibly mean?
What is grief?
The Poem
What does Perfidy mean?
What is distilled?
What is Sequestered?
What is courteous?
What is Keel?
Some questions about these words:
Who feels grief and what does it look like?
Is it an abstract noun?
What does grief suggest to you about the poem before we read it?
What does the one verse stanza suggest about grief?
How would you categorise the poem (theme)?
What is the mood and atmosphere and does it change?
What lines/phrases or words stand out to you?
What techniques have you identified? (explain effect)
Emily Dickinson read widely, but spent a lot of her life closed away, refusing visitors, writing poetry.
Her bedroom overlooked a graveyard from age 10 to 25
Her dad: Edward a United States Congressman and she was interested in politics.
The American Civil War affected her, as a friend died
Five of her school friends died of consumption