After Reading Oe's "Prize Stock", one of the very best short stories I have ever read we moved on to poetry. I am analysing similarities and differences using the Formailst strategy. I always wanted to study the classics of poetry, not that I love poetry, I think it to be too subjective for my taste, but I am curious about why people love Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman for example. I chose to analyze "Because I could not Stop for Death" and "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" both by Emily Dickinson and I wanted to pick a modern poet as well. I selected Linda Pastan with "An Early Afterlife". These three poems talk about death but have very different approach and tone.
She was very strange, I guess. Poeple call her eccentric but she would not conform to the to the rules of society and, as a result, she was always in search of something and exploring the possibilities in her poems. After reading and searching I came to like her poetry and peek inside her world. Very interesting.
