Study Guide To The Major Poetry of Emily Dickinson Intelligent Education English

1) Introduction to Emily Dickinson 1 2) Textual Analysis 14 Renunciation / is a Piercing Virtue 14 Remorse is Memory Awake 18 My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close 20 I Never Lost as Much but Twice 22 Pain Has An Element of Blank 25 I Cannot Live With You 27 The Soul Selects Her Own Society 32 Superiority to Fate 35 It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up 37 Just Once - Oh Least Request! 40 I Asked No Other Thing 42 Because I Could Not Stop For Death 45 To Know Just How He Suffered Would Be Dear 48 I Never Saw a Moor 53 It Can't Be Summer - That Got Through 56 There's a Certain Slant of Light 59 As Imperceptibly as Grief 64 It Makes No Difference Abroad 68 To Make A Prairie It Takes A Clover and One Bee 71 It Dropped so Low in my Regard 72 I Died for Beauty, But was Scarce 74 The Heart Asks Pleasure First 77 If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking 79 A Thought Went Up My Mind Today 81 'Twas Such A Little, Little Boat 83 It Tossed And Tossed 85 For Each Ecstatic Instant 87 Much Madness Is Divinest Sense 89 I Felt a Funeral in my Brain 91 I Heard A Buzz When I Died 93 The First Day's Night Had Come 95 The Last Night That She Lived 97 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch 99 Wild Nights - Wild Nights 101 A Bird Came Down The Walk 102 I Dwell In Possibility 104 I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed 106 Hope Is The Thing With Feathers 108 I Like To See It Lap The Miles 110 A Narrow Fellow In The Grass 112 Presentiment is That Long Shadow On the Lawn 114 The Sky is Low, The Clouds are Mean 116 Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers 117 3) A Critical Summary 119 4) Critical Commentary 124 5) Essay Questions and Answers 135 6) Bibliography