Feed’st thy
Here and elsewhere (like line 13's "Pity") the meter is not iambic. (An iambic foot of poetry is unstressed-STRESSED. "deSIRE") Be prepared to discuss the effects of these metrical variations.
Feed’st thy
Here and elsewhere (like line 13's "Pity") the meter is not iambic. (An iambic foot of poetry is unstressed-STRESSED. "deSIRE") Be prepared to discuss the effects of these metrical variations.
Vesuvian face
This is one of my favorite of Dickinson's images--it recurs one other time I know of
Sip, Goblin,
Whoa. Let's keep track of the dramatis personae here.
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Make sure that by this point we've discussed slant rhyme.
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Dickinson's punctuation and capitalization are idiosyncratic. What do you do with something like this? Is it a deliberate caesura? Check the manuscript
filament, filament, filament
Effects of repetition? Meter? Vowel or consonant sounds? Visual imagery?
(who knows how?)
What do you make of this parenthesis?
uncumberèd
Note the accent mark. This word should be five-syllabled. UN-en-CUM-be-RED.
For this poem, you really need to read between the lines. Stanza two's opening implies that an action has taken place between Stanza two's beginning and Stanza one's ending. What happened?
Suk compares this to trying to teach “a medical student who is training to be a surgeon but who fears that he’ll become distressed if he sees or handles blood.”
OOF!
Once you find something hateful, it is easy to argue that exposure to the hateful thing could traumatize some other people.
Easy to argue, but not easy to argue convincingly, right?
emotional reasoning
I guess Gardner's multiple intelligences, particularly intrapersonal intelligence, really took hold!
The rate of emotional distress reported by students themselves is also high
Some academic subjects might actually benefit distressed students. Reading a narrative about somebody with a similar struggle might give a student a coping mechanism, or at the very least, a sense of proportion of their own struggles.
we make moral judgments is express allegiance to a team
This allegiance could lead to great conversations. When people have a stake in a topic, they often are very well informed.
mutual dislike used to be surprisingly mild
Yes, I'm thinking of what Sunday morning talk shows used to be.
call the Socratic method is a way of teaching that fosters critical thinking
...and Socrates fostered critical thinking for a social end. He feared the kinds of leaders that Glaucon et alia might become
argely about emotional well-bein
An important distinction between PC and these two movements. With special attention to microaggressions and trigger warnings, cui bono, and at what cost?
specially women,
So I'm not sure if this is a pathos-appeal, like Cross was talking about, or if it's a specific narrowing of her focus. The usual victims ("victims"?) of this kind of tribunal ("court"?) are women. Dang, what would Hayakawa say about how important classifying things is in this debate?!
national debate and dinner table
Perhaps this is what Cross calls "plain-folks appeal" (211). It's also worth noting that the speech was delivered from Crawford, Texas, with the open Texas landscape behind the President (rather than the White House).