Interdisciplinary Arts 0128 - Emily Dickinson's Poetics

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published very little in her lifetime, yet she left behind a body of work that continues to intrigue, engage, and inspire. In this workshop we will consider Dickinson's life in light of the personal pressures and national upheavals that marked it, and the ways in which her writing-both poems and letters-charted what she called 'circumference,' the whole of existence, from the tiniest insects to the depths of human yearning, to the motion of the stars in the sky, and beyond. Informed by readings of her poems and critical explorations of her work, participants will craft poems charting a movement from their own here and now, out toward what Dickinson described as a realm "Beyond the Dip of Bell--".

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Students are expected to spend six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.