October 15th

Today in my major author class on Emily Dickinson we discussed her fascicle #16. This fascicle contains mainly poems that have to do with Dickinson's concept of death and what may lay beyond it. This fascicle also contains poem #337 "of nearness to her sundered things" which contains the reference of Dickinson to a "mouldering playmate" which I personally imagine as Dickinson sitting there playing at a tea party or something with this across the table from her. In the poem it seems as if she is referring to a playmate who has passed on, and then comes back from the dead, but is changed by death, because death itself leaves a very lasting mark. All in all this was an enjoyable fascicle, but I do not think I'm going to go in this direction with my paper. I mean, Dickinson has a lot of darker material, but this is a bunch of it all crammed together.....it seems a bit much.