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As if My Brain Had Split: Writing About War Lecture
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Title
As if
My
Brain
Had
Split
:
Writing
About
War
Lecture
Performer(s)
Friedlander
,
Benjamin
Subject 1
Dickinson
,
Emily
,
1830-1886--Criticism
and
interpretation
.
Subject 2
Dickinson
,
Emily
,
1830-1886
.
Correspondence
.
Abstract
Benjamin
Friedlander
teaches
a
class
in
which
he
talks
about
how to
read
Emily
Dickinson
in the
context
of the
Civil
War
. The
class
studies
several
poems
and
discusses
how they
relate
to the
war
. In the
deconstruction
of her
poems
,
Friedlander
talks
about
Dickinson’s
use
of
words
. He
delves
into the
story
of
Frazer
Sterns
, a
boy
from
Dickinson’s
town
,
whose
death
in the
war
impacted
her
greatly
. He
reads
excerpts
from her
letters
in
which
she
talks
about
Sterns
.
Content
0:00
Benjamin
Friedlander
begins
class
.
Students
introduce
themselves
.
10:00
Friedlander
talks
about
the
class
subject
: how to
read
Emily
Dickinson
for
traces
of the
Civil
War
.
12:00
He
begins
talking
about
Emily
Dickinson’s
background
, her
family
, and what was
going
on
during
this
point
in
history
.
16:27
Her
prolific
writing
during
the
years
of the
war
,
though
not
many
poems
were
directly
about
the
war
.
Mentions
Frazer
Sterns
, a
boy
from
Dickinson’s
home
town
that was
killed
during
the
war
.
18:40
Reads
Dickinson’s
poem
596
,
“When
I
was
small…”
Class
discusses
the
tone
and the
meaning
.
29:34
Reads
"
444:
"
“It
feels
a
shame
to be
Alive…”
Discussion
.
39:00
Reads
“303:”
“The
Soul
selects
her
own
Society…”
He
reads
the
alternate
poem
.
Class
discusses
and
Friedlander
lists
other
words
Dickinson
recorded
as
possibilities
.
51:40
Reads
“306:”
“The
Soul’s
superior
instants…”
53:00
Talks
about
using
a
concordance
to
look
up
how
words
are
used
in
different
poems
. As an
example
, he
looks
up
the
word
‘valves.’
He
talks
about
the
difference
between
what
is
possible
and what
is
provable
when
interpreting
a
poem
.
59:27
Friedlander
reads
“My
life
had
stood
–
a
Loaded
Gun.”
He
talks
about
how the
last
line
is
a
reference
to
“Romeo
and
Juliet.”
1:02:48
How this
relates
to the
gap
between
what
is
possible
and what
is
provable
. The
act
, the
occasion
, and the
object
are
all
important
to
keep
in
mind
when
trying
to
understand
a
poem
.
1:06:34
Talks
about
the
poems
which
correspond
with
Dickinson’s
letters
and
instructs
class
to
read
the
letters
before
the
next
class
meeting
.
1:08:57
Tells
the
story
of the
young
man
from
Amherst
,
Frazer
Sterns
,
who
joined
the
army
during
the
Civil
War
and
died
. How this
event
impacted
Dickinson
and her
writing
.
1:11:46
Reads
excerpts
from her
letters
in
which
she
talks
about
the
war
.
Begins
with a
letter
to her
cousin
,
Louisa
Norcross
written
on
New
Year’s
Eve
1861
,
“Mrs
.
Adam’s
had
news
of the
death
of her
boy
today…”
1:13:24
Reads
from the
letter
written
in
late
March
1862
, to
Louisa
and
Francis
Norcross
, in
which
she
tells
them of the
death
of
Frazer
.
1:15:15
To
Samuel
Bowels
, the
newspaperman
,
“Dear
Friend
, will
you
be
kind
to
Austin
again…”
1:17:17
Reads
“426:”
“It
don’t
sound
so
terrible…”
1:20:23
Reads
more
poems
connected
to the
death
of
Frazer
Sterns
,
including
“He
fell
by the
side
of
Professor
Clark…”
1:23:12
Reads
from
Dickinson’s
letter
to
Thomas
Wentworth
Higginson
,
“Are
you
too
deeply
occupied
to
say
if
my
verse
is
alive…”
1:28:40
Class
reads
“Somewhere
upon
the
general
Earth…”
Closing
thoughts
from
Friedlander
;
why
he
relates
to
Dickinson’s
poetry
.
1:36:06
Recording
ends
.
Type of Event
workshop
Date Recorded
1992-07-06
File Format
.mp3
Performance Length
1:36:06
Rights Information
Copyright
release
given
to
Naropa
University
for the
purposes
of
preservation
,
marketing
and
educational
use
.
All
other
rights
reserved
to
individual
performers
.
Department
Writing
Tape Order
2 of 2
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
92P067.mp3
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