I started Early - Took my Dog
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- Created on: 07-05-18 21:07
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- I started Early - Took my Dog
- Emily Dickinson
- Language
- Personification of the sea
- Sensuality of language
- Imagery of being consumed / devoured
- Sea both welcoming and potentially destructive / powerful
- Context
- She never saw the sea
- Event imagined
- Brought up with religion
- Reclusive later in life
- Structure and Form
- Use of dashes - influencing pace
- Narrative order to the poem
- Changes in tone
- Hymn-like quality to writing
- Sense of reverence
- Some rhymes
- 6 x 4 - quatrains
- 1862
- Key quotations
- 'But no Man moved Me - till the Tide'
- 'And made as He would eat me up - '
- 'with a Mighty look - At me - The Sea withdrew'
- Meaning
- ****** fantasy of sexual union
- Destructive or suicidal impulse
- Poetic voice departs from when returning to reality
- What happens?
- Imagines visit to sea
- Coming in of the tide
- Retreat of poetic voice to the town
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