English 270
March 10, 2017
Assignment for paper 2, due March 17
Who was Emily Dickinson?
In a five-page essay, answer, “Actually, scarily! I don’t know.” Explain your bewilderment by
carefully trying to read these five poems –
Franklin 236, “Some keep the Sabbath going to church”
260, “I’m nobody”
340, “I felt a funeral in my brain”
359, “A bird came down the walk”
1668, “Apparently with no surprise”
-- and sort through some of their many moods.