Dickinson — Form, Imagery, and Key Poems (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Dickinson's slant rhymes
Dickinson's slant rhymes
Imperfect rhymes creating unease & uncertainty
Dickinson's ballast dashes function
Dickinson's ballast dashes function
Spatialise psychological discontinuity as perceptual caesurae
Wattsian hymn metre pattern
Wattsian hymn metre pattern
Iambic tetrameter alternating w/ iambic trimeter
Dickinson's capitalised abstract nouns
Dickinson's capitalised abstract nouns
Metaphysical personification, elevating psychology to cosmic
Domestic architecture imagery
Domestic architecture imagery
Brain as house w/ corridors - internalising psychological space
Synesthetic anesthesia in Dickinson
Synesthetic anesthesia in Dickinson
Physical numbness representing psychological states
Poem 40 'I felt a Funeral' concept
Poem 40 'I felt a Funeral' concept
Psychological cartography - mapping mental disintegration
Poem 103 'Because I could not stop'
Poem 103 'Because I could not stop'
Domesticated apocalypse - death as polite gentleman caller
Poem 96 'One need not be a Chamber'
Poem 96 'One need not be a Chamber'
Cognitive gothic - relocating horror to internal consciousness
Poem 64 'Much Madness' function
Poem 64 'Much Madness' function
Epistemological weapon challenging conventional certainty