In reading over Emily Dickinson's #427, my group was able to put many of the terms from the Emily Dickinson reading strategies list into use. It was easy to see how un-conventional a poet Dickinson was. Other than random dashes, the poem had no punctuation whatsoever. It did not take away from the reading of the poem, however. There was also very little rhyme. The use of night and day, which is present throughout Dickinsons poetry did not fail to be included here. They became part of Dickinson's personal poetic lexicon. The technique we found to be used the most was the use of oxymorons. In line 2 she uses the phrase 'sunset at the dawn' while in line 4 we see 'midnights due at noon'. These were our most clear cut examples of poetic use of contradiction put down as only Dickinson could.

Mark, Edward, Hannah, Gregory, Rick