Emily Dickinson
Death/despair:
66 (258) There's a Certain Slant of Light;
78(280) I Felt a Funeral in My Brain;
204(510) It was not Death, for I stood up,
Supplementary:
79(281) "Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates;
152(396) There is a Languor of the Life;
(1304) Not with a Club, the Heart is
154(401) What Soft -- Cherubic Creatures
202(501) This World is not Conclusion
217(536) The heart asks Pleasure -- first
123(342) It Will be Summer Eventually
213 I'm sorry for the dead Today
61(252) I can wade grief410
death/social:
184(465) I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died
290(712) Because I could not stop ...
149(389)There's been a Death
supplementary:
318(777)The Loneliness one dare not
269(650) Pain -- has an Element of Blank
248(599) There is pain -- so utter
death/ecstasy/romance
Sharon Cameron, "Lyric Time" web
Mary Arensberg, "The Sublime" web
200(498)I envy Seas, whereon He rides 163
(414)'Twas like a Maelstrom
209(520) I started early -- took my dog
307(754) My Life had stood -- a loaded GUN;
58(249) Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
265(640) I cannot live with You
supplementary:
64(255) To die -- takes just a little while
27(160) Just lost, when I was saved
37(193) I shall know why -- when time
119(335) 'Tis not the dying hurts us so
social/sexual politics
565(1737) Rearrange a "wife's" affection
57(246) forever at His Side to Walk
89(293) I got so I could take his name 114(326)
I Cannot dance upon my Toes(web)
505(I would not paint--(web)
supplementary:
77(279) Tie the Strings to my Life;
188(474) They put Us far apart
253(611)I see thee better -- in the Dark293
(716)The day undressed Herself
112(324) Some keep Sabbath going to
120(338)I know that He exists
Self-definition:
186(470) I am alive -- I guess
95(303) The Soul selects her own Society
203(508) I'm ceded -- I've stopped being
supplementary:
176(448) This was a Poet
427(1129) Tell all the Truth but tell it
546(1651) A word made flesh is seldom
288(709) Publication -- is the auction
525(1545) The bible is an ancient volume
Nature:
126(348) I Dreaded that first Robin, so
273(668) 'Nature is What we see
109(321) Of all the sounds
supplementary:
(1068) Farther in summer than the Birds
498(1400) What mystery pervades a well!
123(342) It will be Summer -- eventually,
422(1100) The last night that she lived
23(130) These are the days
116(328) A Bird came down
104(314)Nature--sometimes sears a sapling
132(364) The morning after woe
211(526) To Hear the Oriole Sing
82(285) The Robin's my Criterion
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay excerpts,
"Nature" "The Poet" essays (web)
poems:
Brahma
The Problem
The Snowstorm
Each and All
Supp:
Concord Hymn
Song of Nature
The Sphinx
Slave narratives:
1.Frederick Douglass, "Cowardice Departed, Bold Defiance Took Its Place"
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/31.htm
supp: entire narrative: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
2. Henry Bibb, "Conjuration" http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/25.htm
supp: ENTIRE BIBB NARRATIVE http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BibNarr.html
3.Douglass, Frederick THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY: CHAPTER 9, RELIGION, POWER
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/09.html
4. Excerpt from the memoir of William and Ellen Craft (web)
supp readings: William and Ellen Craft WEBSITES
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/craft/craft.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CraThou.html
WALT WHITMAN, LEAVES OF GRASS
Preface to 1855 Edition pp.617-622 (l.1-260); pp.628-636 (l.512-end)
Time,Space,Experience,Democracy:
"Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry," p.135
"Passage to India," p.345
"Whoever you AreŠ" p.99
"Are you the New Person Drawn Toward me," p.105
"Who Learns My Lesson Complete," p.331
Supplementary:
"Song of the Open Road" p.126
"Song of the Redwood-Tree" p.206
"To a Locomotive" p.395
"Song for Occupations" p.187
"To a Pupil," p.328
Sexuality/ The Senses/ The Body
Letter to Emerson1856,pp. 644-646 l.286-end
When I Hear'd the Learn'd Astronomer," p.227
"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," p.79
"When I Heard the Close of Day" p.105
"A Woman Waits for Me," p.87
"To a Common Prostitute," p.325
Supplementary:
"I Sing the Body Electric," p.81
"Once I Pass'd Through..."p.94
"I am He That Aches With Love," p.93
What Think You I take My Pen...p.133
Identity/doubt
"When I Heard the Close of Day" p.105
"I Saw in Louisiana..."p.108
"There was a Child Went Forth," p.306
"When I peruse..." p.110
To a Stranger" p.109
"There was a Child Went Forth," p.306
Supplementary:
"Kosmos," p.392
"What am I After All," p.392
The War
"The Wound Dresser," p. 259
"Vigil Strange I kept..." p.255
"A Sight in the Camp," p.257
supplementary:
Cavalry Crossing a Ford p.251
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame, p. 253
When Lilacs Last Bloomed .. p.276
The Mystic Trumpeter, p.392
Over the Carnage p.265
Reconciliation, p.270
Death and Eternity (revisited)
The Sleepers, p.356
As I Ebbed with the Ocean of Life, p.212
supplementary:
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," p.246
This Compost, p.309
"To Think of Time," p.364
"Whispers of Heavenly Death," p.370
"On the beach at Night Alone," p.218
Song of Myself p. 28
for Class discussion sections 1-6;7-8;9-10;
13-15;16-17; 18-26;27-28; 2-34; 38-40;
44-45;47-52