IT SIFTS FROM LEADEN SIEVES

1. IT SIFTS FROM LEADEN SIEVES POEM BY EMILY DICKINSON POWERPOINT BY GRACE ANDERSON

2. THIS POEM HAS ; 5 stanzas with 4 lines in each stanza for a total of 20 lines. 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 deals Celestial Vail To Stump, and Stack - and Stem - A Summer’s empty Room - Acres of Joints, where Harvests were, Recordless, but for them – It Ruffles Wrists of Posts As Ankles of a Queen - Then stills it’s Artisans - like Ghosts - Denying they have been - It is a free verse poem, which means that it has no rhyme scheme. It is a Ballad, which means it tells a story.

3. These two stanzas show how the snow sifting like a fluffy sheep, but is coming down quick and hard. It tells how the snow is falling into the cracks in the road. It also tells how it is spreading in a wide area, over mountains and the plains. It also shows how it can be even and untouched and it can seem like it goes on forever The poem “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” is talking about snow. Background Information: Emily Dickinson normally wrote about death. Winter, in poetry, normally means death. 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 - The poem creates Imagery. The reader could imagine the snow, slowly falling, covering everything.

4. When the poem says “Recordless, but for them-” It means that the snow has covered up the harvests where, but everybody knows that they were there. These two stanzas are talking about how the snow is covering everything It reaches to the Fence - It wraps it Rail by Rail Till it is lost in Fleeces - It deals Celestial Vail To Stump, and Stack - and Stem - A Summer’s empty Room - Acres of Joints, where Harvests were, Recordless, but for them - It also talks about how the fence looks like it has a veil on. The imagery of these stanzas are with the snow falling down on the trees and fields.

5. When it says when it ruffles wrists of posts, like the ruffles on the dress of a queen. It Ruffles Wrists of Posts As Ankles of a Queen - Then stills it’s Artisans - like Ghosts - Denying they have been - The last two lines mean that the snow has come and vanished, like a ghost, like it was not even there

6. EMILY DICKINSON Emily Dickinson was very important. She served as inspiration to poets for generations to come. She was also one of America's early female poets,allowing females to get into the literary world.

7. LITERARY ANALYSIS ASSONANCE ALLITERATION Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. One hears assonance is line one’s “sifts” and “sieves.” The sound returns also in the lines “fills” and “wrinkles” and later in “stills . . .artisans.” There is also assonance in the vowel sounds of “wood” and “wool,” the first of those words forming a slant rime with the stanza’s final word “road.” Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of nearby words such as “sifts” and “sieves,” “wool” and “wood,” “wrinkles” and “road.”

8. LITERARY FIGURATIVLEY The literal meaning of the poem is the snow falling. It also goes into great detail about how the snow is falling slowly and how it is falling then receding back into the earth. The figurative meaning of the poem is that the story of one’s life. We all have cracks and times like everybody is against you. The snow symbolizes that we have to appreciate everything before it, and we, are gone.