Going to him! Happy Letter! (494)

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Emily Dickinson
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Rhyming Scheme - Devices - Mood - Upbeat, yet underlying messages of jealousy for the letter is going to who she wishes she could. Childish tone covering her despair for her inability to be with Him?Setting - Characters - Speaker, Letter, HimMessages - Themes - Love

Going to Him! Happy Letter!Tell Him -Tell Him the page I didn't write -Tell Him - I only said the Syntax -And left the Verb and the pronoun out -Tell Him just how the fingers hurried -Then - how they waded - slow - slow -And then you wishes you had eyes in your pages -So you could see what moved them so -Tell Him - it wasn't a Practiced Writer - You guessed - from the way the sentence toiled - You could hear the Bodice tug, behind you - As if it held but the might of a child - You almost pitied it - you - it worked so - Tell Him - no - you may quibble there - For it would split His Heart, to know it - And then you and I, were silenter.Tell Him - Night finished - before we finished - And the Old Clock kept neighing "Day"!And you - got sleepy - and begged to be ended - What could it hinder so - to say?Tell Him - just how she sealed you - Cautious!But - if He ask where you are hidUntil tomorrow-Happy letter!Gesture Coquette - and shake your Head!

Upbeat, playful, happy

Personifies a letter, her alter ego, a fragment of her

- She is a recluse, she does not directly interact with the world herself - she must do so through a letter

-The letter has more freedom than she does - it has the freedom to go to him, while she must stay here. It achieves what she cannot. It is lucky to be going to Him

Words are not enough to describe how she feels, what she wishes to say.An emotional link between the words/letter and the writer 

Unspoken words, underlying messages 

Mechanics, construction of the letter 

Words with no meaning - she cannot say what she wishes to

No

No punctuation - fast paced

Use to dashes to slow the reader

She struggles to say what she wishes

Literal movement or Emotional movement?

He changes her, she is not herself

Metaphor for dragging (of the sentence) 

'it' 'you' = letter

Change of tense

. She and the letter must be silence - as she cannot tell Him what she wishes to

Stopped writing before the letter ended

- To tell hi 

- To 

- To tell him that the letter was not finished

She and the letter are no longer attached - seperated by her no longer writing

Flirtatious - she hides the letter on her person, keeping it closer to her 

Various use of pronouns - connections, limitations, lack of freedom

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