Our latest assignment in the American Literature course was to look at poetry done by Emily Dickinson and try to decipher the meaning of two selected poems. I knew this would be a challenge for me due to my lack of experience with poetry. I have always had a hard time unveiling what the poet is trying to say and accomplish when using such discrete language in their work. I normally look right past the hidden meaning that is meant to be portrayed in poetry. Therefore, when assigned this task, I realized it as a good opportunity to work on my skills with poetry. With two poems to analyze, I figured that I could spend more time than usual trying to seek meaning in a poetic sense. I selected the poems “I went to heaven”, and “Choice”. I felt both poems were challenging, but would keep me interested because they both had good imagery. Although both poems used the same rhyme scheme and detailed descriptions and imagery, these qualities produced two poems of different meanings, as the poem “I went to Heaven” was about a setting in perfect, nice scenery, while “Choice” had to do with the darker issue of death. These facts helped me decipher what I put
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It is a dark and morbid sight to picture, knowing your life is about to end. I put myself into the narrator’s position and tried to figure what would stimulate my mind to describe a setting with such detailed beauty. This place makes me feel as if I were in a land of no other, just as the narrator must feel when she describes a place that she relates to heaven. I can honestly say that I was not very excited about this assignment due to my lack of appreciation for poetry. Everything from the lighting to the details on the rug of this room is captured in my mind like a Kodak moment. I viewed it in a sense of what a living person has when alive, and what leaves the body when dying. When I stepped into my father’s meeting room in Japan for the first time, I was hit with an instant shock. It is a three- stanza poem, also with ABCB rhyme scheme. I believe that the narrator is describing death in a sequence of metaphors. After getting a chance to look closer at poetry, and attempt new methods to decipher meanings has built my skills and strengthened my tools to the point where I feel more confident with my work in poetry. By doing so I was enthralled by dong this assignment, and learning about poetry as a whole. I felt as if the poet was writing about a place that really captivates her. “I went to heaven” shows that the narrator is truly divine with her descriptions of this perfect place. I pictured what a patient would go through on their deathbed and how their senses and spirit would leave their body.
My first poem, “I went to Heaven”, is a short poem with just one stanza and uses ABCB rhyme scheme.
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