Emily Dickinson
Noah Hudson & Tim Wyatt
I dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
Structure, Language, and Literary Devices
Meaning: The sky is the limit
Imagery: Visual- "Of Chambers as the Cedars" & "The
spreading wide my narrow Hands"
Metaphor: "And for my Everlasting Roof The Gambrels
of the Sky"
Tone: Hopeful
Theme: Faith (Possibilities)
Slant Rhyme and Inverted Syntax
Slant Rhyme: "Prose... Windows... Doors" &
"This... Paradise"
Inverted Syntax: "Of Visitors - the fairest - For
Occupation - This"
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Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Structure, Language, and Literary Devices
Meaning: Death is inevitable and eternal
Imagery: Visual- "The Roof was scarcely visible", "... Fields of Gazing
Grain", & "The Dews drew quivering and chill-"
Symbolism: The day is ending and so is her life. She is passing things
the symbolize life; kids, setting sun, etc.
Parallelism: We passed... We passed... We passed (line 9-12)
Tone: Serene
Theme: Death
Slant Rhyme and Inverted Syntax
Slant Rhyme: "Away... Civility", "Day... Eternity",
& "Grain... Sun"
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She couldn't stop for Death, I couldn't
for boredom.
- Bernie Sanders
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