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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 images of the nearby, the everyday, or the local in the poem?
  • Research Dickinson's involvement in local and/or national issues.
  • Read any of these other poems (again, in a manuscript version if you can): "The miles of Stare- that signalize a Show's Retreat" [243]; "The Fingers of the Light" [1000], "I started early-Took my Dog" [520], "If I could bribe them by a Rose" [179], "What is-'Paradise'" [215].


FURTHER READING

  • Karl Keller, The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America (Johns Hopkins UP, 1979)
  • Polly Longsworth, ed. The World of Emily Dickinson (New York: Norton, 1990). Photo-essay.
  • Shira Wolosky, Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War
  • Cecilia Anderson, "Deep Dyed Politics in ED's 'Revolution is the Pod'." Dickinson Studies 49:3-8 (1984)
  • Benjamin Lease, "'This World is Not Conclusion: Dickinson, Amherst, and 'the Local Conditions of the Soul'." ED Journal 3.2: 38-55 (1994)


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