English 178
Emily Dickinson Seminar Syllabus
Fall 2013—
Wednesdays—Two-Thirty to Five, Mills
Hall 318
Professor Dickinson—
E-mail—edickinson!@mills.edu
Course Description
This is a Class — It is Meant
To Distill amazing sense
From ordinary Poems —
To Discover, the Discloser —
The Poet —
Required Texts
Her — “poems” —
Poems — about —
Bees — and death —
And mountains —
But — mostly —
Death —
Assignments
On such a class, or such a class,
Would anybody read
If such a little figure
As me never Decreed
Typed weekly reading Responses,
Double-Spaced, two essays
Eight pages, and Research paper
Due during Finals days
Class Protocol
Ring! Ring! Please turn Off —
Your portable — Rotary —
Dials, Kindly do not —
Bring — your electric —
Tapping lap books to —
Class —
Please be — Quiet
So quiet, oh, how quiet!
With your Food — and —
Crumbs —
Name Policy
I heard a Fly buzz — when a student
Called another the Wrong —
Gender — pronoun —
The stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air —
Between the Heaves of Storm —
As the fly — with uncertain stumbling
Buzz — flew between — the students
It was — Awkward —
And uncomfortable —
Academic Integrity
How dreary — to — plagiarize!
Use correct citations!
To make public, like a frog
Your sources —
To an admiring bog!
If you— don’t tell!
They’d banish — you know!
As it is! grounds —
For expulsion!
Contact Information
If you have Any —
Questions, please leave — a —
Flower — on my — Grave
During my office —
Hours — Monday and —
Tuesdays — Eleven to —
Two-Fifteen
