This week in class the thing that stood out to me the most was the TED talk with the lady who explained that much like at an art gallery, you have to be selective on what Literature you read. Being selective when reading literature is necessary because if you aren't drawn to a piece of work you won't have a connection with it. If you don't have a connection with a text then there really isn't a reason for reading it. We also talked extensively about Emily Dickinson's "A Funeral in my Brain" Which was a pretty straight forward poem. The speaker of the poem was experiencing a poem inside of their brain. The writer of the poem excludes any use of immediate visual imagery from the point of view of the speaker. This is to limit the setting of the poem to the amygdala or the part of the brain where most emotions such as depression are handled. This technique is particularly interesting because it isn't what the writer including in the poem but what they excluded. Dickinson wrote the poem with the intention of not having the speaker use their eyes and then relied heavily on the other senses in order to describe the entire poem to the reader. One big thing from Dickinson's poem that stood out to me was my first interpretation of what the meaning of the poem. At first I thought maybe the poem was about a person or loved one who was keeping the speaker from going insane. The line "Then a plank in reason broke" was where I got the idea from. This theory was kind of debunked, because I based it off the idea that Dickinson had close people in her real life and was trying to communicate a loss. Specifically I thought about a husband or sibling dying. After checking the internet I found out that she never married and died prior to both of her siblings.
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Josephine
10/11/2016 09:51:10 am
Hi Edgar,
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