1. Close Reading of Emily Dickins
The reader can never see or picture these people at the funeral in the narrator's Brain. ... In the third stanza of this dark poem, Dickinson creates more of an auditory picture with use of "sound-verbs- such as creak (Ln. 10) and descriptive nouns such as "Boots of Lead."" ... In Dickinson's fourth stanza, she uses similes and more descriptive auditory' words to describe her last final feelings as she is taken away, alive, to her grave. ... The final imagery in the last stanza is of the way that a coffin is laid on planks placed across the grave. ...
- Word Count: 1027
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: High School