i don;t ynderstand her poetry to answer these questions.

1. Safe in the Alabaster'- what is the poet descriding in stanza one?
who are meek members of teh resurrestion?

2. A bird came down the walk"- who is ther person telling the poem and what are they doing?
what does this poem reveal about relationship between man and nature?
in the 4th and 5th stanzas, to what does the poet compare the flight of the bird?

3. I died for beauty"-- how are the aspecst of truth and beauty made equal?
what do teh final lines mean as regarding the two "kinsmen"?

4. Because i could not stop for death"-- how would you characterize emily dickson's view of death?
does this poem change from the beginning of the poem to the end?
How does this poem describe two differnet aspects of the passing of time?

here is what i can get from the poems, hope it helps you.

1)in stanza 1 she is describing a coffin, not a wooden one, a marble one; the members of the resurrection are those who are dead--the people who will be taken when Jesus comes back, um i don't know if they are ones from the original resurrection or the one to come.

2)the person telling the poem is a young girl(not necassarily Dickinson), she is watching a bird(i see it as a crow, but that is just personal vision);it shows that although man likes nature and tries to help it along, try to connect with it, nature is afraid aof man because of the harm it can and does do to it; its flight is compared to rowing a boat(the secret is in the first word of the last stanza thAn), the bird's flight is smoother than a person rowing a boat, meaning that nature is purer and cleaner and stronger than man.

3)beauty and truth are made one because they are both things that are(apparently) worth dying for, the 2 kinsmen are friends and talk, but only until time creeps up on them and devours them, obliterates them from the world.

4)Dickinson views death as a kind "person", one who just goes about his own work, ignoring the rest of the world, it's too slow for her; in the beginning time has meaning to her, but by the end time means nothing, it goes by so emptily that it doesn't even matter; in life all of time seems to move so slowly, you see the years you are a child as neverending, and one can hardly ever wait to turn 18, 21..., but as you get older time begins to move faster, of course time has not changed, merely the perception of it, and then when you die, time means literally nothing the passing of it changes nothing, once a person is reduced to bones, there is nothing left to take and time means nothing

well, i hope that helped, it's the best i could do.

I would say that the 'meek members of the resurrection' is a play on the idea that 'the meek shall inherit the earth.'

pam

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