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I have to give a 10 - 15 minute speech tomorrow morning for my Early American Literature class on a single Dickinson poem, I've chosen #1651:

A Word made Flesh is seldom
And tremblingly partook
Nor then perhaps reported
But have I not mistook
Each one of us has tasted
With ecstasies of stealth
The very food debated
To our specific strength --

A Word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die
Cohesive as the Spirit
It may expire if He --
"Made Flesh and dwelt among us"
Could condescension be
Like this consent of Language
This loved Philology.

What do you lot interpret this poem as? I'm just gathering different interpretations to use for the explanation and explication of this poem, as I don't think I necessarily have enough for the time limit.

Thanks, guys!

I have to give a 10 - 15 minute speech tomorrow morning for my Early American Literature class on a single Dickinson poem, I've chosen #1651:



What do you lot interpret this poem as? I'm just gathering different interpretations to use for the explanation and explication of this poem, as I don't think I necessarily have enough for the time limit.

Thanks, guys!

Oh...screwed. 10-15 minutes on something that isn't any sort of science (which includes social scientes)...

Oh...screwed. 10-15 minutes on something that isn't any sort of science (which includes social scientes)...

Haha. I'm an English major.
:)

Haha. I'm an English major.
:)
Well...in that case...you mind if I get your email in case I have to do anything even close to that? And if you need to talk for 10-15 minutes on quantam physics or something I'll hook ya up...

I have to give a 10 - 15 minute speech tomorrow morning for my Early American Literature class on a single Dickinson poem, I've chosen #1651:



What do you lot interpret this poem as? I'm just gathering different interpretations to use for the explanation and explication of this poem, as I don't think I necessarily have enough for the time limit.

Thanks, guys!

Do your own homework, you lazy bum! :p

I suck at poetry, so you might want to just take a pass at what I'm gonna write.

Two things stand out to me. First, obviously is borrowing of a religous image, "Word made Flesh," which is close to the word made flesh. I did some symbolism study of the old testiment, but not the new, so that might be off the mark a bit.

The second is the break down of the rhyme structure when that 'word made flesh' goes from strength to a word that can interact with others(?). There is a change, and the change in rhyme meter seems to be linked to it, but again-I suck at analysing poetry-so if you use anything I said and get an F, it's not my fault.

i can almost figure out what shes talking about
til i get lost at the end
sigh

did you know that we breathe some of the same molecules that jesus breathed when he walked on the earth?

Try google (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+Word+made+Flesh+is+seldom%22+interpretation).

There's not a lot out there on this poem, in particular, which is surprising because it's considered her best "language" poem.

* sigh *

:headbang:

It's going to be a long night...

Plus, I have a psych. paper I have to write on the dangers of tetragens...

sparksnotes.com (http://www.sparksnotes.com/), baby. Got me through ninth grade.

I have to give a 10 - 15 minute speech tomorrow morning for my Early American Literature class on a single Dickinson poem, I've chosen #1651:



What do you lot interpret this poem as? I'm just gathering different interpretations to use for the explanation and explication of this poem, as I don't think I necessarily have enough for the time limit.

Thanks, guys!

Geez, I wish I had seen this earlier. My dad just finished his book on Emily Dickinson. He's sending it to the publishers in September. It was written as an interpretative aid for college students working their way through Dickinson's work.

He's already started on his next book on Robert Frost.

Well, I've just finished the analysis for the speech, hopefully, it's good enough for 10-15 minutes... we'll see what happens tomorrow morning!