Compiled By Nichol Boling,
Brandon Bradshaw,
Meredith Ludwig and Courtney
Phillips
Meredith Ludwig and Courtney Phillips
Selection Criteria:
Our group researched many different poems by Emily Dickinson, both separately and together, before finally compromising on a set of twenty poems that we felt were properly reflective of Dickinson's most important work. The poems we chose had to meet a certain criteria. The criteria we followed required that the poems had to be within the subjects and themes that we felt were most important to Dickinson herself. Secondly, each poem had to represent these subjects in its own individual way. We ultimately settled on three subjects that fit within those criteria. The subjects are love, death and religion. Five poems were picked to represent each subject individually and five more poems were chosen that represent all three subjects together. The following list contains the twenty poems we chose for this project:Selected Poems:
On Love
#162: My River runs to thee -#339: I tend my flowers for thee -
#568: We learned the Whole of Love -
#1440: The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
#1680: Sometimes with the Heart
On Religion
#115: What Inn is this#127: "Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me -
#217: Savior! I've no one else to tell -
#324:Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -
#1657: Eden is that old-fashioned House
On Death
#182: If I shouldn't be alive#721: Behind Me - dips Eternity -
#465: I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
#510: It was not Death, for I stood up,
#712:Because I could not stop for Death -
On All Three Subjects
#158: Dying! Dying in the night!#263: A single Screw of Flesh
#573: The Test of Love - is Death -
#640:I cannot live with You -
#924: Love - is that later Thing than Death -