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Analysis and Interpretation of Poetry: Emily Dickinson, “Crumbling…”

Analysis and Interpretation of Poetry: Emily Dickinson, “Crumbling…”

by 2021-Administrator | Feb 17, 2021 | Life, Reading, Teaching, Teaching Literature, Writing

The act of literary interpretation involves essentially five things: observing, connecting, inferring, and evaluating, and concluding. And as with understanding fictional works, to understand poems, we need to observe their details—their rhythm and meter, forms and...
The Interpretive Process: Robert Frost, “Dust of Snow”

The Interpretive Process: Robert Frost, “Dust of Snow”

by 2021-Administrator | Feb 10, 2021 | Life, Writing

We briefly consider the interpretive process in a reading of the following short poem. Robert Frost Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. We can...
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