Many of Emily Dickinson's poems are very descriptive and riddle-like... can you figure out what this one is about? Here are some definitions of vocab words that might help:
sieves: strainers or sifters
artisans: skilled workers who make things that show imagination and feeling
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.
It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, -
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.
It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil
On stump and stack and stem, -
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where harvests were,
Recordless, but for them.
It ruffles wrists of posts,
And ankles of a queen, -
Then stills its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been.
Emily Dickenson is a really good poet. I think she wrote this poem because she was alone. I think she wrote about someone dead that came back to life and was one of a queens servants. I wouldn't be supprised if this was about death because she wrote about death, lonliness, and something else that I can;t remember.
ReplyDeleteI think it is cotton.
ReplyDeletethe ocean or water
ReplyDeleteI am not sure but i think my best guess would be snow because it said it "powders" the wood and the wool supposed to be white snow in the cracks of the road. :D
ReplyDeleteI think she is talking about a bunny rabbit. They are still and have a straight face witch it describes in the poem.
ReplyDeletei think it is death because you siad she was vey lonely and talked about death and death pretty much fills the description.
ReplyDeletei have no idea of what this is about. Dust? Snow? Who Knows?
ReplyDeleteIt falls from high
ReplyDeleteand ends very low
It is very white
I think it is snow.
I think it is snow because alabaster is white. Also, when the queen steps in snow it is at here feet. This is a very nice poem.
I love Emily Dickenson's poems. I like how she writes about different things. My guess for the answer is snow because alabsster wool is white and when it says it makes an even face it means the mountain even with the snow on it.
ReplyDeleteI think the poem is about snow.
ReplyDeleteI think it is concrete. maybe?
ReplyDeleteeleanor
I have no idea. I even got my dad to help me.
ReplyDeletea rain gutter
ReplyDeleteI am guessing it is wind.
ReplyDeleteI belive that Emily Dickenson was describing flowers,a cotton plant and etc. But I mostly think she was beautifully describing NATURE!!!!
ReplyDeleteCaroline C
I think it is wheat or the sun.
ReplyDeleteMary Grace
I think that Emily Dickinson's poem is about snow. I think this because of the hints she gives like, it powders all the wood (powder is white like snow), and it makes an even face of mountain and of plain (snow makes the mountain's bumps go away and makes the plains more straight than they are). Here's my own poem about snow... (it's a quatrain)
ReplyDeleteA-The snow is falling left and right
A-I hope that i don't get frost bite
B- Children are building snowmen
B- While I'm inside stuck in the gym.
I wrote the last sequence because when it snowed of course i was playing vball in the gym.
I think this poem is about artisans that are plain, depressed, and sad. They're trying to work but all they can think about is that they are so sad and all they want to do is lay down and stop breathing. They want to enter God's kingdom and enter a new happy life.
ReplyDeleteI think it's SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHonestly i really don't know. I really don't know because some of this stuff that she says I just don't really get.
ReplyDeleteI think it is snow because it keeps saying it is covering stuff.It says summer's empty room,so it is not summer,it is winter.It looks like alabaster wool.My answer is snow.
ReplyDeleteI think that she is writing about snow. I love how creative her writing is. Her poems remind me of how beautiful the world really is and what a wonderful job God did creating a wonderful place to live.
ReplyDeleteI think it is either wool or snow.
ReplyDeleteI thank it is about a mouse on a jurny.
ReplyDeleteI think that it's fire. I think this because it says that it powers wood. Maybe the word used is flame. But that's the same thing.
ReplyDeleteIt is snow. I got that because the harvest is in the fall and the season of winter comes after fall. In the season of winter snow falls.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about the blades of grass and the golden precious fields of grain. It talks about the wood of a great oak forest. Its talks about how nature bests even the greatest artists. This poem talks about a flowing crystal blue stream going through the woods. Thats what I think this poem of sadness, beauty, nature, and happiness.
ReplyDeleteI think it means that everything looks ugly to her and so dark and old.
ReplyDeleteI think the first poem is about chalk, the second one about geese, the third one about ivy, the fourth one about an empty farm, and the fifth one about graves or corpses.
ReplyDeleteI think that Emily Dickonson is discribing water. I maybe think that she is discribing water because it said that it powders the trees. I am not sure why I think that and I'm not sure what it really is.
ReplyDeletei think this poems obout the sunseting because the sun wraps around any thing like when it says it wraps it rail by rail till its lost in fleeces
ReplyDeleteI think this poem is talking about the sun, because it shines at the wood, wraps aroun the post[the sunlight], it shines like crystals on a veil and so on. this is just a guess.
ReplyDeleteI think there vines or roots.
ReplyDeleteBeau
1.gold
ReplyDelete2.wind
3.snow,grass,vines
4.crops
5.jewelry
It is about someone making something.
ReplyDeleteI think it is rain/snow.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is: snow
ReplyDeleteLook at the word sieves,then my dad and I went to google and looked up the word. At the bottom of the list it came to Emily D. It gave us comments about what other people thought. It was fun.
I think it means an earthquake has happened and she is talking about all different kind of storms.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know but I will guess. About a thing that travels though places everywere
ReplyDeleteI think it is about snow or rain.
ReplyDeleteI think it is about the wind
ReplyDeleteThe answer is snow.I found out the answer by how it said powder, which reminded me of snow. It also said alabaster which means white and that is how I found out the answer.
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ReplyDeleteSorry about doing it wrong. I think it is snow because the poem describes something that falls nice and covers things. I also like this riddle. It is creative!
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