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Where This BeganIn the fall of 2004, I took a graduate class in American Authors on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson with Dr. Lucy Rinehart at DePaul University. I had no idea that the class would affect me so profoundly. Out of that class has come this site. I started with the first explication of a poem ("Publication -- is the Auction") that I had ever attempted -- done the second week of class. The directions were "just you and the poem." Thank God! If I had known then what I know now.... I have also included my final paper for that class, "The Magic of Emily Dickinson," which takes a look at five of Dickinson's poems: 510J/355F "It was not Death, for I stood up," 579J/439F "I had been hungry, all the years," 412J/432F "I read my sentence -- steadily," 1712J/508F "A Pit - but Heaven over it," and 564J/525F "My period had come for Prayer." It was the final paper that triggered all sorts of questions. I discovered that I wanted to go back and take a closer look at each of those poems. One 10-12 page paper would not have done justice to one poem, let alone to five poems! On the way to redress the travesty of "Magic," I began accumulating notes from my reading on a crazy mix of topics. I'm still working at finding a place on the site for them. Start wherever you like. Who knows what you might find? Back to
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