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Topic 3 (session B) - Patterns, Deviations, Style and Meaning > Parallelism, deviation & 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'

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Parallelism, deviation and 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'

Below is a poem by the C19 American poet, Emily Dickinson More about Emily Dickinson, 0000-0000. We are going to carry out a number of tasks to analyse this poem, one aspect at a time.

Though fairly simple in structure, the poem explores a serious matter. But for a bit of fun we have also produced a rough visual version of each stanza when you get to the semantic analysis of it. As you go through the process of reading the poem and then analysing it, one aspect at a time, you will be practising the sort of research you would need to do to perform a complete stylistic analysis of a poem. So this work counts as practice for your coursework assessment.

Note that we will go through the various linguistic levels of the poem in an order which goes from most meaningful to least meaningful, as it is easier to relate the less meaningful aspects of language (e.g. orthography, and phonetic structure) to our understanding of the poem after we have looked at the more directly meaningful levels.

 


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