A Modern Myth: Emily Dickinson and the Everyday Hero
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A relatively haughty assertion for a relatively simple poetic form
- Using grammatical characteristics
- This act of picking apart a poem
- The cultural and historical context to the folk ballad
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
One can wonder whether William Shakespeare's sonnets would be memorized in every classroom across the Western world if they were anything other sonnets. So inseparable are the two ideas that they barely have separate identities: Shakespeare's sonnets are accepted without question, and most analytical commentaries approach from the angle of content rather than form. His sonnets just are, and one rarely questions the "why" of his sonnets. Sadly, emily dickinson has been equally discriminated, passed off as a "genre" poet: as Shakespeare is the sonnet, dickinson is the ballad. Yet such a generalization is destructively misleading. dickinson is other forms as well; she is even poetic freedom. She is not defined so easily, and neither are her poems. And when she does use the ballad form, that very use must be explored as thoroughly as the meaning behind her words, for, to steal the cliché, there is a method to her madness.
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