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cf. Emily Dickinson（划线及中文部分上课前删掉）;Ideas on poetry writing Emily Dickinson seemed to consider poetry writing as a private thing. When she was in her early twenties, she began to write poetry. Sometimes she would send her poems with letters to her friends. But she never approved of publishing her poems, for she thought, “Publication is the auction of the mind of man.” So she kept her poems to herself throughout the life. She did not regard herself as a poet. But in her opinion, a poet’s responsibility is to use concrete images to present abstract ideas. Her poems are terse and suggestive.;11, Philip Freneau (1752-1832);;;;iambic tetrameter The poem is said to anticipate the nineteenth-century romantic use of simple nature imagery. In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature. He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature. It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature. The poem showed strong feelings for the natural beauty, which was the characteristic of romantic poets. ;cf. Ben Jonson：The Noble Nature;Robert Herrick：To Daffodils ;以黄水仙凋谢得太快来感叹人生匆忙而短暂 ;The Indian Burying Ground;;;;;;;;;;Death in the Indian tradition has a different meaning. It is no longer that sad and dreadful event that everyone is afraid of. The North American Indians bury their dead in a sitting posture; decorating the corpse with wampum, the images of birds, quadrupeds and with bows, arrows and other military weapons. The dead Indian is dressed in special clothes as though celebrating a happy event. The dead person becomes a warrior who protects the land. This explains his posture and the way he is dressed in. The conception of death in this culture makes of it a different one from the white man’s.;The Lake of Innisfree (By Yeats) I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-lou