Assignment: Eng11: Emily Dickinson, 2 Date:Tue, Jan 30, 2007
Read “slant rhyme” on page 380. Write a defintion of it in your journal, along with 3 examples from the Dickinson poems we’ve already read. (15 minutes)
Read aloud in class:
“The Mirror Girl--stares back at me” (380)
“Some keep the Sabbath going to Church” (381)
“I taste a liquor never brewed” (382)
“Much madness is divinest sense” (383)Discuss: extended metaphor
Relate “Some Keep the Sabbath” to Emerson and ThoreauWrite a paragraph using specific quotes from this poem to answer this question:
What is Dickinson’s relationship to nature, and how is this revealed in the metaphors she chooses?Do not form your paragraph as the answer to a question. Instead, write a self-contained paragraph with a strong topic sentence, that includes at least 3 quotations. The paragraph must be at least 6 sentences long.