昨天第一節繼續講上週的note taking

不過老師要我們be more specific

我中規中距的寫法果然中招了

老師說我的太廣泛

要我寫比較細一點的

比如: Emily and her loneliness(in her writing)之類

我第一個被叫上台坐

嚇我一跳

老師又叫我加入自己的看法

問我為甚麼要選Emily

我支支吾吾答不出所以然

現在我來好好想一下原因

因為  那首"I like to see it Lap the Miles"吧

有很大關係

因為she is the contemporary for Walt Whitman

Because according to Wikipedia, she is also a great cook in bakery

she cook for her household, taking care of her sick mum

witness so many deaths of her beloved one, from teaccher to kids that she doted on the most

maybe that's why she becomes so introvert when she gets older

i feel interested when i learnt that she is good in bakery

it is hard for me to conncet her, a poet, with bakery, and gardenning

maybe that's why i chose Emily to write

yeah, that got to be a readon behind every work

This tue(ie yesterday)'s assignment is that we need to narrow down the scope of our notes last week

in my case will be narrowed down to, as Peter suggested, "Emily and her loneliness"

so my notes left:

1. Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in December 10, 1830.

4. She preferred to live a solitary life.
5. She disliked meeting people in person. She would rather choose staying in contact with them by mail.4. She preferred to live a solitary life.

6. She preferred to dress in white.

7. She wrote a lot of poems but only a few were published.

10. Emily's youngest sister, Lavinia made her poems known to the public after she died.

So i need to find out what has been left out that these connection of the notes that i got is incomplete. For instance, why she wants a solitary life? Is it to do with her dressing white? Is she suffering some intense sorrow--make her determined to disassociate with ppl--and relect in her white dressing? and because she prefers alone, so seldom are aware of her poems? Last time from LTR class i also learnt that Emily even burnt some of her poems because she was reluctant to let her work be known to the public. Or anne sexton. i kind of mix these two poets up. i like Anne Sexton's "Her Kind" too. i think this is what we will be working on next week.

Of course i acn also come up with different topic, instead talking on "Emily and her loneliness", i can talk about "Emily and her revolutionary poem style", then my notes will be extracted as following (1, 8, 9, 11, 13):

1. Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in December 10, 1830.

8. Her poems are special in many ways.

9. Her poems touch mostly on death and living forever.

11. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd first published her poems but did a lot of changes on them.

13. Many people questioned Emily for being a qualified poet in the past. But now she is regarded as a renowned American poet.

i think no. 9 is optional, depending on how i want to construct my contents. ^^ fun

Last Tuesday's work:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson):  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.
1. Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in December 10, 1830.
2. She died on May 15, 1886.
3. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts .
4. She preferred to live a solitary life.
5. She disliked meeting people in person. She would rather choose staying in contact with them by mail.
6. She preferred to dress in white.
 
Dickinson was a prolific private poet, though fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.^[1] The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often utilize slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.^[2] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two subjects which infused her letters to friends.
7. She wrote a lot of poems but only a few were published.
8. Her poems are special in many ways.
9. Her poems touch mostly on death and living forever.
 
Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.^[3]
 
10. Emily's youngest sister, Lavinia made her poems known to the public after she died.
11. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd first published her poems but did a lot of changes on them.
12. Later, Thomas H. Johnson published Emily's original poems.
13. Many people questioned Emily for being a qualified poet in the past. But now she is regarded as a renowned American poet.