poetry
This poem was very hard to make an argument for to tell what it means. The poem deals with the idea of depression, hurt, weighted choices, and death. It is the most uplifting of poems, but I don't think Emily Dickinson was trying to make it that way. She uses the idea of winter to represent darkness, the comparison of the weight of a choice the heft of Cathedral tunes. She uses a line, which states that there are internal differences to represent emotional not physical problems. She also say's that no one can teach the person how to make the right decision, showing that the person is on their own to make their own choices. The poem has many prosodic characteristics as well. The poem seems to have a regular pattern of syllables. It never goes over 8 syllables and never falls below 5. It all sticks to an ABAB format, with a slight change in the third stanza. The Poem starts off with an ABAB format. In the first stanza it is exactly ABAB format. The first line consists of 7 syllables. The second line has 5. The third has 7, while the fourth has 5. Making the first stanza a 7,5,7,5 pattern of syllables. The second paragraph has ABAB format. The first line has 7 syllables, the second has 5, the third has 7, and the fourth has 5. Th
In conclusion I found that the poem very hard to dissect and figure out a true meaning for it. From what I read and tried to get from the poem was that it was a very dark poem. The person in the poem didn't necessarily have to be the author and it wasn't the reader. I think the author may have been talking about a person she knows or it could have been a choice the author had to make in life. That part of the poem I do not know. I do know that it for the most part stuck to a strict format in the beginning of the poem but half way through it, it changed and in the third stanza of the poem it stuck to no format at all and it came back together in the final stanza of the poem. The argument of the poem went hand in hand with the prosody of the poem. Like the prosody the argument changes in the third stanza and comes back in the fourth. When it comes, the Landscape listens-
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Approximate Word count = 921
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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