Dickinson — Context, Voice, and Poetic Vision (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Period & place of Dickinson's poetry
Period & place of Dickinson's poetry
1850s-1860s, Amherst, Massachusetts
Dickinson's elliptical voice traits
Dickinson's elliptical voice traits
Dashes, approximate rhymes, concentrated imagery
Slant rhyme definition
Slant rhyme definition
Similar but not identical sounds (near/approximate rhyme)
Dickinson's response to Calvinist church
Dickinson's response to Calvinist church
Rejected formal church membership despite family pressure
Total poems & Civil War period output
Total poems & Civil War period output
~1,800 total; ~half during Civil War years (1861-65)
Epistemology meaning
Epistemology meaning
Study of knowledge: how we know what we know
Capitalised abstraction effect
Capitalised abstraction effect
Elevates abstracts to active agents (metaphysical personification)
Psychological cartography
Psychological cartography
Mapping mental states with geographic precision
Internal gothic meaning
Internal gothic meaning
Terror in consciousness rather than physical spaces
Domesticated eternity concept
Domesticated eternity concept
Making death/eternity familiar, ordinary, even polite