Text Analysis of Beyond the Fence

There are only two short verses in this poem, but the words are full of meaning and thought-provoking. The first section, write a strawberry on the other side of the fence, so sweet and attractive! How I want to climb over the fence to pick strawberries! In the second section, I stood on the fence and thought about this problem. Should I go over there? God will scold me if the past will stain my apron. But if you don't pass, don't give up that sweet strawberry. Under the control of this ambivalence, the poet can't help but imagine that God is also a child-like a child, he can't resist the temptation, and like a child, he climbed over the fence and stained his apron to pick strawberries. And will God really be a child?

After this superficial interpretation, we may have a variety of interpretations of strawberries, which are endowed with symbolic significance. Thus, "fence", "apron" and "God" have their own symbolic meanings. Appreciating this poem along this line will give us a unique spiritual experience. (1) the landscape of the mind.

Dickinson's poems are strange and disorganized. Her poems mainly express personal feelings and have unique views on life and death and love. She is good at revealing the love and hate in people's hearts. Her works are like landscape paintings of the mind, and she herself is also called a landscape painter of the mind.

② Short and concise poetic style.

Dickinson's poems are mostly short and pithy, and the language is unpretentious. But this does not affect the interpretation of the theme of her poems, on the contrary, it gives people a broader space for imagination and aftertaste. Beyond the Fence is a short but profound and thought-provoking poem. In teaching, students should be encouraged to make diversified explanations in combination with their own life experiences or feelings. As long as students can clarify the relationship between strawberries, aprons and gods, teachers should fully affirm and encourage them.

Students can be guided to read Dickinson's other works with the same style, so as to understand the creative style and inner world of the poetess. For example, if I can mend a broken heart, the poet's understanding of the meaning of human existence; Such as "I am a nobody! Who are you? Value orientation of a generation of poets who are content with obscurity.

It can also be compared with the works of China poets. For example, it is compared with Shu Ting's "Double Mast Ship" or the one-word poem "Life Net" by North Island. So as to deepen the understanding of the theme and writing of this poem.