Apparent+With+No+Surprise

="Apparently with no surprise" = Emily Dickinson Born: December 10, 1830 Amhert, Massachusetts Died: May 15, 1886 Studied at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary She was born to a prominent but not wealthy family Fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published in her lifetime Most of her poems do not have titles It was not until after her death when her poems were discovered by her sister

"**Apparently with no surprise**" Apparently with no surprise, To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play, In accidental power. The blond assassin passes on. The sun proceeds unmoved, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">To measure off another day, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For an approving God.
 * || ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Examples from Text ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Explanation/Impact ==== ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Theme ||  || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Nothing in nature is disturbed by death.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Death is part of the cycle and is not feared.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Nature favors no one and nothing.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Nature is not shocked by the death.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Things in life happen for a reason, sometimes for good or bad,
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">But man must accept this truth and live life completely. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Imagery || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"To any happy flower"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The frost beheads it at its play"'

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"In accidental power"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The blond assassin passes on"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The sun proceeds the unmoved" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Creates a lighter tone and image, not alluding towards the near death
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Happily blooming and living
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Shows the frost toying with the flower and killing it
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Flowers die when exposed to frost
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">The frost does not want to kill the flower, it is just apart of the natural cycle
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Leads us to believe that the frost has no control over its power in nature
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">The "assassin" is not dark but blond which creates irony ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Meter || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rhyme scheme: ABCBDECF

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Two stanzas with four lines

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Almost equal in word length for each line || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">The rhyme scheme is erratic
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Shows the constant state of death with nature and life. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emotions || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Apparently with no surprise"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"For an approving God" || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Shows the lack of surprise for everything in nature towards the death of the flower
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">God approves of what happened and shows no displeasure
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Adds the shocking value to the entire poem ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">//Emily Dickinson Museum//. Amherst College, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/>. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> //Poets//. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155>.
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