The Lightning is a yellow Fork Analysis

Many of Dickinson's poems have a singsong, hymn-like quality, and that's because they're mostly written in ballad stanza. (It's no coincidence that you can sing pretty much any Dickinson poem to th...

The speaker is a kind of non-character here, as in many Dickinson poems. There isn't even an "I" speaking in this one; the poem is in the third person and we're given no clues about who or what is...

This whole poem is a kind of cool thought exercise that asks us to create an imaginary setting that ends up enacting the speaker's thoughts. Huh? Basically, it's a mind-bender that lets you wande...

With its whimsical opening image and singsong rhythm, this poem plays out like a kind of twisted nursery rhyme. Reading it aloud you might think of it as a theological ditty for precocious toddlers...

Like all Dickinson poems (which only received titles from editors, not from the poet herself), we refer to this poem by its catchy first line. "The Lightning is a yellow Fork" comes right out and g...

Typing out Dickinson's poems on a Computer requires the frequent Use of the Shift Key. She uses a Lot of Capital Letters. We're not sure why She did this, and Editors used to Remove the capital let...

We bet you took a look at the first line and thought this poem was going to be a walk in the park on a balmy day. Suddenly – eep! – you realized that you were standing at the base of a glacier...

Eek! Did you know that over a thousand people are struck by lightning every year? Talk about "awful Cutlery" ... (source).Dickinson was talking about spirituality, not science, but she may have bee...

There's nothing steamy whatsoever to be found anywhere in this poem. For that matter, there are no people. This is deep, metaphysical fun for the whole family.