A five-page stanza-by stanza analysis of the structure, theme, character development, symbolism, irony, paradox, personification, imagery, punning, biblical allusions, foreshadowing, understatement, and anaphora (repetition of words at the beginning of a string of sentences) in this most popular of Dickinson’s poems.
The handout, which has blanks that your students can fill in, is suitable as an in-class activity or for homework.
Since the words for the blanks are almost exclusively drawn from