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        <title><![CDATA[Whenever you have a question that asks you to summarize something, the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whenever you have a question that asks you to summarize something, the best way to do it is to read it all through in its entirety, and then try to sum up what you read in your own words.  Summaries tend to be about 1/3 the length of the original work; so, if you were reading 3 paragraph essay, your summary, written in your own words, would typically be around a paragraph.  You want to summarize the main points, the main ideas, and the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do we summarize the poem "Trees" (stanza wise) by Emily Dickinson?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do we summarize the poem "Trees" (stanza wise) by Emily Dickinson?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:37:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson has a very distinct style of writing, and unusual...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson has a very distinct style of writing, and unusual capitalization is just one of the facets of that style.  The reason that she probably chose to capitalize certain words was to give them more emphasis or importance.  Dickinson wrote really short, dense, minimally worded poems, so she had to make every single word count.  If she capitalized a word, it gave that word an extra punch of power, without having to add more words,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:24:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[From the poem "Will There Really Be a 'Morning'?" by Emily Dickinson,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From the poem "Will There Really Be a 'Morning'?" by Emily Dickinson, why might she have capitalized the words she did?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:46:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaningdevices of the Emily Dickinson poem "Time and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaningdevices of the Emily Dickinson poem "Time and Eternity #40?
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        <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 12:03:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A significant number of Dickinson's poems take as their subject the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A significant number of Dickinson's poems take as their subject the relationship between the human and the antural world. In this sense, she can be associated with the Romantic poets, who likewise took as the subject for their poetry nature and humans. This poem clearly shows her appreciation of the external beauty of the natural world, with her celebration of sunsets. The natural world acts as a gallery if you like for the beauty of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:41:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does does Dickinson use land/landscape/place in her poem 'How the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does does Dickinson use land/landscape/place in her poem 'How the old Mountains drip with Sunset'?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:35:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dickinson opens this poem with a somewhat surprising statement,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dickinson opens this poem with a somewhat surprising statement, especially for our world of "15 minutes of fame":  "I'm nobody."  Then she asks the reader or someone to whom the poem is addressed the question:  "Are you nobody too?"   Whomever is being spoken to must answer in the affirmative, because she notes that there's a pair of them, and she adds, playfully, that they should tell because they'll be banished for being nobodies. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:46:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Irony is often defined as when the opposite of what is expected...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Irony is often defined as when the opposite of what is expected occurs.  In Emily Dickinson's poem, she states that she is a nobody, and seems to be quite happy about it.  This is ironic, because you expect most people to want to be considered important, to be acknowledged, to be known and admired.  But, ironically, Dickinson seems to enjoy being a nobody.  That is where the main irony lies.  Dickinson states proudly, "I'm nobody!" and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:42:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the use of irony in "I'm Nobody."]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the use of irony in "I'm Nobody."]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The major theme of the poem is that in the human heart, hope endures,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The major theme of the poem is that in the human heart, hope endures, defeating despair despite overwhelming circumstances. Hope "perches" in our soul, ever present. It prevails even when there is no cause or reason to be hopeful:

And sings the tune without the words--


And never stops--at all--

Dickinson emphasizes that hope endures under the most difficult circumstances by extending her metaphor. She has heard the little bird's song "in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:09:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of "Hope is the Thing With Feathers"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of "Hope is the Thing With Feathers"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:27:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a difficult, if not impossible, question to answer, but there...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a difficult, if not impossible, question to answer, but there are some things we can do.  First of all, the form of their writing could not be more different, but each mirrors their approach to the world.  Emily's world was very small; she lived in a small community and spent a great deal of her time in her house.  Her poetry tends to explore the "inscape" --- the tight form and interesting rhymes/punctuation mirror this exploration...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:38:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson used three types of rhyme:
First is exact rhyme. Take...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson used three types of rhyme:
First is exact rhyme. Take the poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," for example. Examples of exact rhyme is me/Immortality in the first stanza.
She also used slant rhyme where the words "sort of" rhyme--they are close, but not exact. In the same poem, look at chill/Tulle and Day/Eternity.
She also uses what is called eye rhyme. In this type of rhyme, the words look like they SHOULD rhyme, but...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:56:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Most often, Dickinson uses exact rhyme, though she has been known to use...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Most often, Dickinson uses exact rhyme, though she has been known to use slant rhyme as well. As an example:

Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me,
The riders were but just ourselves
and immortality...

In this excerpt, we see that "death" and "ourselves" both use the short "e" sound toward the end of each word, making a sort of slant rhyme, but more evident is the exact rhyme of "me" and "immorality." Another device to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:14:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems during her lifetime, so...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems during her lifetime, so examining each one would require more time than we have here, but looking at even one of them shows that she used both exact rhyme and slant rhyme. Consider the first two stanzas of "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain," for instance:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,


And Mourners to and fro


Kept treading--treading--till it seemed


That Sense was breaking through--

 

And when...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:28:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What kind of rhyme did Emily Dickinson use in her poems?
a. exact rhyme...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What kind of rhyme did Emily Dickinson use in her poems?
a. exact rhyme
b. slant rhyme
c. no rhyme
d. all of above]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:29:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman differ in their thinking and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman differ in their thinking and writing when it comes to modern poetry and understanding God?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:12:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The conflict between hope and despair is implied in the poem. Hope is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The conflict between hope and despair is implied in the poem. Hope is examined through the metaphor of a little bird that "perches in the soul" and sings without stopping, even without reason or support. The song of hope sounds "sweetest" during the storm; hope is so strong that it cannot be expunged, except perhaps by the worst of storms. Through the extension of the metaphor, hope can overcome despair during the worst of times, "in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:27:50 PST</pubDate>
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