Poetry for Students Vol. 10

The Bustle in a House “The Bustle in a House,” first published as “Af- termath” in Dickinson’s posthumous first collec- tion, Po ...

62 Poetry for Students ous political offices. Her mother Emily Norcross Dickinson was a quiet and frail woman. Dickinson went to ...

Volume 10 63 because the sacred rituals and ceremonies per- formed for the dead are the closest that most peo- ple “upon Earth” ...

64 Poetry for Students of work more abstractly, more metaphorically, as a defense against the death and decay that always threat ...

Volume 10 65 church, and generally fulfilling civic and social re- sponsibilities. Even if she could have found the time and the ...

66 Poetry for Students it. Popular poetry of the time was sentimental and genteel. Not even the radical transcendentalists (Ralp ...

Volume 10 67 struggled scarce— / Consented, and was dead— / And We—We placed the Hair— / And drew the head erect— / And then an ...

68 Poetry for Students bustle that opens the poem is a counterpoint to the weighty word, “Eternity,” with which it ends. The poe ...

Volume 10 69 use of domestic imagery in poems that also con- cern death. That the moment of death seems often less mo- mentous t ...

70 Poetry for Students nally introduces a pronoun. But in the choice of “We,” she nevertheless keeps the housewife hid- den from ...

Volume 10 71 work is highly prized for its crystalline compact- ness in Japan, where haiku reigns supreme. Even in translation, ...

72 Poetry for Students with the similarity in spelling between “hearth” and “heart,” for sweeping up the hearth was an oner- ous ...

The Cremation of Sam McGee Service wrote “The Cremation of Sam McGee” while working as a bank teller in the Yukon Terri- tory se ...

74 Poetry for Students McGee sitting up and smiling. Sam tells Cap to shut the door so as not to let in the cold. Author Biograp ...

Volume 10 75 Canada, but they soon moved to Hollywood to be close to the film industry. Service and his family returned to Europ ...

76 Poetry for Students I guess he’s cooked, and it’s time I looked”; ... then the door I opened wide. And there sat Sam, looking ...

Volume 10 77 (“rave[s] all day”). By nightfall, Sam is a frozen corpse. The stunning visual beauty of the night sky (“the stars ...

78 Poetry for Students seriousness of the fight for survival in the unfor- giving Yukon. Death “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is f ...

Volume 10 79 earnest. Even with hardships brought on by some of the world’s most unforgiving weather, prospec- tors managed to e ...

80 Poetry for Students “a folk tale of unquestioned natural vitality.” Phelps further distinguished between readers with literar ...