need help on the approach i should take

1 dickinson
the effect on the modern reader on reading her poetry

Ces, I recommend you contact Paul Reuben who compiled the following website for a recommended approach to Dickinson's work.

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Les



Post Edited (09-14-04 16:51)

Well, since you're a modern reader, how about interpreting it personally? How does reading her work make you feel? Do you enjoy it? Are there concepts or words that you don't understand?

pam

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I am not sure why Emmy would have a different effect on the modern reader than those of earlier years. Maybe because she consistently used meter and (off) rhymes but such techniques are not employed as much today?

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I might argue that we think differently today about topics of religion- Emily's 'audience' were primarily Protestant Christians. Today, we're a mixture of any and all religions and lack of religion, with a broader view of what the possibilities might be.

pam