ENGL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emily Dickinson, Chinese Poetry, Quatrain
3 May 2016
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An example of an emily dickinson poem. This use of the word die is an example of formal and dramatic closure. The third line in each quatrain has an extra foot to it. To create a closure, the poet sets up an expectation, frustrates the expectation and then either meets or defies that expectation. Pain and suffering are close in meaning even though they don"t rhyme. Since the poem refers to heart, it is about falling in and out of love. This analogy is used in chinese poetry as the gut. The heart first wants pleasure, then a lack of pain. Next it wasn"t something to relieve the pain, and then to go to sleep and be emotionless.
