Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play,
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God.
Analysis:
In "Apparently with no Surprise" Dickinson writes about the attitude of nature. In the first stanza she writes about a "happy flower" who gets hit by the frost. With the use of personification, through describing the flower as happy, the reader can relate more to the feeling of the actions in the nature. The speaker might try to suggest the brutality of life, through comparing it to the nature, and how the "happy flower" conveys its true brutality; frost. But that's just reality, and things can often happen accidentaly. It simply goes on as it always has, regardless of tragedy.
søndag 20. november 2011
"A Spider sewed at Night"
A Spider sewed at Night
Without a Light
Upon an Arc of White.
If Ruff it was of Dame
Or Shroud of Gnome
Himself himself inform.
Of Immortality
His Strategy
Was Physiognomy.
Analysis:
As a central purpose I would say this poem is about creation. The speaker might try to relate to God's creations, and how his power to create comes from himself. Based on this the speaker tries to compare this to a spider and how he creates his masterpiece of a spider web compared to how God created his masterpiece. One thing they have in common is that they started off from nothing, and they both ended up creating something meaningful. The speaker ends the first stanza in describing the beginning as the Arc of White. That can be related to a blank paper, or in other words; starting of from nothing. The last stanza tries to get a sense of God's eternity, and how he was just decided to be the head of all beautiful creations that he built out of practically nothing.
Without a Light
Upon an Arc of White.
If Ruff it was of Dame
Or Shroud of Gnome
Himself himself inform.
Of Immortality
His Strategy
Was Physiognomy.
Analysis:
As a central purpose I would say this poem is about creation. The speaker might try to relate to God's creations, and how his power to create comes from himself. Based on this the speaker tries to compare this to a spider and how he creates his masterpiece of a spider web compared to how God created his masterpiece. One thing they have in common is that they started off from nothing, and they both ended up creating something meaningful. The speaker ends the first stanza in describing the beginning as the Arc of White. That can be related to a blank paper, or in other words; starting of from nothing. The last stanza tries to get a sense of God's eternity, and how he was just decided to be the head of all beautiful creations that he built out of practically nothing.
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you-Nobody-too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell they'd banish us-you know!
How dreary-to be-Somebody!
How public-like a Frog-
To tell your name-the livelong June-
To an admiring Bog!
Analysis:
In "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" the speaker, who probably is Emily herself, clearly has a feeling of being non-existent, and asks the reader if he/she feels the same. The speaker suggests being Nobody is better than being Somebody, which she describes as "dreary". I thought about that this poem might be based on Dickinson's feeling of her situation in the society. How she went from nothing to work herself up to become a published poet. However, she might went through some failures and had to work hard to get from Nobody to Somebody, but then realizing that being Somebody was not as satisfying as she thought it would be. With a light tone, childish voice and an invitation to the reader she creates a more playful and happy poem.
Are you-Nobody-too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell they'd banish us-you know!
How dreary-to be-Somebody!
How public-like a Frog-
To tell your name-the livelong June-
To an admiring Bog!
Analysis:
In "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" the speaker, who probably is Emily herself, clearly has a feeling of being non-existent, and asks the reader if he/she feels the same. The speaker suggests being Nobody is better than being Somebody, which she describes as "dreary". I thought about that this poem might be based on Dickinson's feeling of her situation in the society. How she went from nothing to work herself up to become a published poet. However, she might went through some failures and had to work hard to get from Nobody to Somebody, but then realizing that being Somebody was not as satisfying as she thought it would be. With a light tone, childish voice and an invitation to the reader she creates a more playful and happy poem.
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