Homework Help: Art

Posted by John on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 7:00pm.

Thank you very much, Writeacher. I'm posting the first part of my paraprase again because I failed to include the reference to the stanzas.

1) Dickinson’s poetic universe is characterized by personal deprivation. In particular, in poem 579, “I had been hungry, all the Years” she imagines herself dining again after many years of unsatisfied hunger.
2) In the first stanza she writes that her “Noon” has come “to dine”. In the second stanza she claims that she had imagined this moment often enough (when turning home), as she stared through windows into opulent houses where people were “eating”.
3) In the third stanza, she claims that she knew she could not even hope for such abundant happiness. She had never experienced the ample bread as she was used to sharing the “crumbs” with the birds in nature’s dining room. In other words, she had always starved.
4) The crumbs always left her hungry and frustrated, exiled from human society. Trembling with eagerness, she draws the table close to her and merely touches the strange wine. In the fourth stanza she confesses that this abundance, however, hurts her.
5) She feels strange and compares herself to a berry which, transplanted from a mountain bush to the public highway, dies. Her self has been so completely defined by its starvation that food threatens to destroy it.
6) Thus she resists food in order to survive. In the last stanza she states that hunger is the conditions of those who, like her, are fully detached from social life. Here it becomes clear that her starvation is above all an emotional one.

Art - Writeacher, Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 10:51pm
1) Dickinson’s poetic universe is characterized by personal deprivation. In particular, in poem 579, “I had been hungry, all the Years,” she imagines herself dining again after many years of unsatisfied hunger.

2) In the first stanza, she writes that her “Noon” has come “to dine”. In the second stanza, she claims that she had imagined this moment often enough (when turning home), as she stared through windows into opulent houses where people were “eating”.

4) The crumbs always leave her hungry and frustrated, exiled from human society. Trembling with eagerness, she draws the table close to her and merely touches the strange wine. In the fourth stanza, she confesses that this abundance, however, hurts her.

5) She feels strange and compares herself to a berry which, transplanted from a mountain bush to the public highway, dies. She herself has been so completely defined by its starvation that food threatens to destroy it.

6) Thus she resists food in order to survive. In the last stanza, she states that hunger is the condition of those who, like her, are fully detached from social life. Here it becomes clear that her starvation is, above all, an emotional one.

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