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ISSUES
FOR DISCUSSION OR INVESTIGATION
- Read carefully any one of the poems cited here, consulting the manuscript version (Franklin or hypertext version) if at all possible. How do you think Dickinson is using the idea of "landscape" in the poem?
- Read any of these other poems (again, in a manuscript version if you can): "Funny- to be a Century" [345], "It was a quiet way" [1053], "The Life we have is very great" [1162], "I cross till I am weary" [550], "I did not reach Thee" [1664].
FURTHER READING
- Suzanne Juhasz, The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind (Indiana UP, 1983)
- Patrick O'Donnell, "Zones of the Soul: Emily Dickinson's Geographical Imagery," CLA Journal, 21: 62-73 (1977)
- Inder Nath Kher, The Landscape of Absence: Emily Dickinson's Poetry (Yale UP, 1974)
Richard Sewall, Life of Emily Dickinson (Harvard 1974, 1994)
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