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Echoes of Reclusion: Dickinson & Whitman

Dive into the unconventional poetic realms of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, exploring human consciousness and democracy. Learn about their unique use of rhyme, meter, and punctuation, challenging the norms of their time.

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Echoes of Reclusion: Dickinson & Whitman

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  1. New American Poetry

  2. Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman • 1830-1886 • Reclusive , minimal social contact • Unconventional use of punctuation, meter, and slant rhyme • Explored the different aspects of human consciousness. • 1819-1892 • Despite initial criticism, became widely admired. • Unconventional rhyme and meter • Celebrated the common man, democracy, equality and spiritual unity.

  3. Sound devices(since poetry is meant to be HEARD) • Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (Pied piper) • Meter: rhythmical pattern (# of beats) • Rhythm: the pattern of beats in spoken or written language • Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the ends of words • End rhyme: rhyming words repeated at the ends of lines • Internal rhyme: rhyming words fall within a line • Slant rhyme: rhyming sounds which are similar, but not exact (glove-prove vs. glove-above) • Rhyme scheme: represent the rhyme alphabetically (abba/abba)

  4. More Sound Devices… • Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds (“hiss”, “murmur”, “rustle”) • Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds (“given distance”) • Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words (pluck and dark) • Repetition: the repeating of words, phrases, or lines. • Catalog: a list of things (people, names, jobs, etc.) • Free verse: poetry that has irregular meter and line length • Parallel Syntax: the repetition of grammatical structure.

  5. Figurative Language • Simile: A comparison between two things using “like” or “as”. • Metaphor: A direct comparison between two things that are identified. • Personification: a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. • Hyperbole: Gross exaggeration (“If Tim doesn’t ask me to the prom, I will die.”) • Imagery: the use of descriptive language used to create mental images for the reader.

  6. “Of Mice and Men” • By: John Steinbeck • Be sure to purchase or borrow a copy by Friday, February 10th.

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