Internet is so convenient! It makes it especially easy for me to live my life of seclusion. I don't have to argue with my friend Higginson anymore about revisions I just type and suddenly it's there for all to see. Very close to being published now that is freedom. Check out this lovely video for a peek into my life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYzN2KTWVw&feature=related
This is one of your classmates thoughts on my Poem.... what do you think?
Because I could not stop for Death:
I think by death having stopped that the death was unexpected. It goes on later to say that she had to put away her work/play even. I imagine it being set aside like being interrupted.
I thought of the carriage as possibly a coffin since it only fits her and Immortality(an endless existence)
When it discusses passing the school and the children I thought this was in reference to youth and then it mentions "in the ring" and it reminded me of a circle shape possibly in reference to circle of life. However I wasn't sure of the fields and the setting sun....except the sun is setting as a signal of the end of day/life.
When they pause at the house swelling of the ground this sounded like a grave to me the way a tombstone would swell from the ground surrounded in dirt.
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I feel like Emily Dickinson and I share a lot in common. For one, we are both isolated from society. After the death of her parents she put herself in insolation and wrote poems. I was put in isolation in some ways by Prospero because I had to be his slave. Another reason we are similar is there was confusion with both of us. She was questioned if she had an affair with a married man or woman. And my gender was constantly being questioned if I was a man or woman.
I believe that Emily Dickinson wrote lovely poems, but yet she isolated herself and was never married. I had wanted my daughter to be married and I think that other women should have followed in her example of getting married and then having the intimate relationship.
Emily wrote such beautiful words and i feel like i have a different opinion of it that ya'll do. she sees a school cuz it makes her think of when she was a young girl, a good time in her life before bills and husbands weighed women down. well, shoot, my childhood aint nothin' like that but she must've been lucky to get to go to a school. i think shes being carried to the afterlife by God. He was taking her to heaven, away from life, but when it's time that's the place i wanna go. Prospero, i agree with ya', a lady should be married so she has a good man to help her, but women need to keep them heads on straight and not get married like that Wife of Bath.
i think emily wrote a lot of lovely poems. i agree with ariel that both of them had a bunch of similarities. i think she was a great lady was nothing like the wife of bath. She was a very confident lady who believed in herself.
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