We started this week off with getting back to Poems of the Week. This week’s poem was “I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Dickinson. I was very excited to get back to analyzing poetry because I felt much more prepared to inspect a poem and write about it. We spent the most time analyzing the imagery of this poem. Before we started, I thought of imagery as a single topic. However, we learned that there is much more to it than that. One important part of imagery is that there are seven different types: each of the five senses, movement, and feeling (as in emotional, not touch). There is a very good summary of every type of imagery here. We then took it a step farther by not only looking at what types were in the poem, but what types were missing. We determined that there was a distinct lack of visual imagery, so we explored further. We started to ask why Dickinson would leave out imagery for the sense we use the most, while putting in plenty of hearing and emotional imagery. This added a whole new layer of depth to the poem. It led to new ideas about the real meaning of this poem. The concept of looking at what isn’t there is a genius idea that I would not have thought of on my own. Armed with both this idea of missing imagery and getting to see a good essay written for the AP test, I felt very ready to write this Friday’s poem analysis.
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Josephine
10/13/2016 06:43:47 am
Hi Eric,
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