文档介绍：Lecture 9
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Emily Dickinson
艾米莉·狄金森
(1830-1886)
Emily Dickinson around 1846–1847
Emily Dickinson
arounbtle breaks of rhythm, and idiosyncratic syntax and punctuation to create fascinating word puzzles.
Her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.
Features of Dickinson's Poetry
Due to her deliberate seclusion, her poems tend to be very personal and meditative.
She frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and personification to vivify some abstract ideas.
Features of Dickinson's Poetry
Despite its ostensible formal simplicity, Dickinson's poetry is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness.
Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.
Features of Dickinson's Poetry
In short, her style is characteristic of being untitled, frequent use of dashes sporadic capitalization of nouns, convoluted and ungrammatical phrasing, half-rhymes, broken meters, bold and unconventional and often startling metaphors, whimsical imagery, and aphoristic wit.
Success Is Counted Sweetest
is counted sweetest a By those who ne'er. succeed. b To comprehend a nectar c Requires sorest need. b
This stanza establishes the theme: that the person who best understands the meaning of success is the person who fails.
This quatrain can stand alone as a completed observation. 
Ne’er: Example of syncope (词中省略), the omission of letters from the middle of a word. [Red Letters: Alliteration (s sound) Blue Letters: Alliteration (k sound) ]
2. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition  So clear of Victory
This stanza introduces military imagery: purple Host (army) and took the Flag (captured the flag, signifying victory), but it cannot stand alone as a completed observation.
Rather, it requires the third stanza to complete its meaning. 
purple: (1) Blood