Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Vendler Grid poetry


I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (340)
By Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -


Vendler Grid
Meaning: Dying inside.
Antecedent
Scenario: Goes hand in hand with dying inside but different because also talking about a funeral. 

Structural Parts: 4 lines. 


Climax: Hearing a creak. 
Other Parts: The words all go hand in hand. 


Skeleton: 20 lines 
Content Genre-
games: ----



Tone: Sadness & despair.
Agency: ---
Roads Not Taken: not ending the poem, making us think about it ourselves. 
Speech Acts: Saying "And" 
Outer and Inner Structural
Forms: Uses "-" a lot. 
Imagination: I picture a head with a casket and someone banging on it trying to get out.  




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