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Emily Dickinson 狄金森 一沙一世界 一花 一天堂 A Comparison Dickinson differs from Whitman in a variety of ways: optimistic --- pessimistic keep his eye on society at large ---explores the inner life of the individual; “national” in his outlook --- “regional” Whitman’s endless, all-inclusive catalogs --- Dickinson’s concise, direct, and simple diction and syntax I. Life and Works 1. Amherst, Mass. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; lived a secluded life, dressed in white Benjamin Newton, Charles Wadsworth, Lord, Thomas Higginson 2. 1,775 poems(7 were published in her lifetime) Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955) 3. subjects--- nature, love, death and immortality II. Reading Death Poems 1. My life closed twice before its close 2. Because I could not stop for Death Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.?? We slowly drove, he knew no haste???????? And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played At wrestling in a ring;???????? We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun.?? We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, ? The cornice but a mound. Since then ’t is centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads Were toward eternity. 3. I heard a Fly Buzz-when I died- I heard a fly buzz when I died;?? The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air?? Between the heaves of storm.?? The eyes beside had wrung them dry,???????? And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king?? Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away?? What portion of me I???????? Could make assignable, – and then?? There interposed a fly,?? With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,?? Between the light and me; And then the w