Emily Dickinson

If you're studying the poetry of Emily Dickinson for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!



English teacher Peter Tobin is back and he's here to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.



Peter covers different aspects of Dickinson's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.



Leaving Cert English students will be doing the select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to ones you're studying.

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https://www.studyclix.ie/community/leaving-certificate/english/



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Timecodes:

0: 49 - Who is Emily Dickinson?

6:40 - Style & Form

10:17 - Themes

15:45 - "Hope" is the thing with feathers

17:56 - There's a certain Slant of light

21:47 - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

24:44 - A Bird came down the Walk

26:33 - I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

29:08 - The Soul Has Bandaged Moments

32:07 - I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to

34:07 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass

37:34 - I taste a liquor never brewed

39:18 - After great pain, a formal feeling comes



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