Rock the Grasso
Poet Dickinson
Emily
Ahead of her time she wrote
this during
a time where the Romatics moved into
the modernists
American Modernism
Characteristis artists movement breaking
from tradition
modernists to details
pay attention
create a in their
sensory experience
texts
modernists look inward self consciousness
but there is also a sense of the author's
the
feelings pervading or
infiltrating
reader's space thouges
speak to reader
directly
structure
Structured in such a that there is
way
a build to the storm and a fade
up
away
, The is alot of punctuation to create
tention and rhythm
stanza l
line 1 The wind Degan to rock the
grass
there is a build up move backwards
forwards
liner With threatening tune low
of switches
impending wistling to more
violent image
Atmosphere ominous threatening gloomy
violent
lines menace at the earth
flung a
something that can cause damage
personification of the wind being in control
5 the storm is to be afraid of
something
use of earth
at the sky and sky idicates
jeh.gggenace that eyer
thing is filled by the
threat from heaven to earth
Stanza 2 continues w
lines The leaves unhooked themselves froittretff
of howthey snap off w the wind
imagery