Monteiro
The full text of this article is available through the EBSCOhost. It is erroneously cataloged as if Emily Dickinson herself is the author of the article, so you won't be able to find it by searching for Monteiro's name.
In the future, finding the article will be part of the homework assignment, but this time I'll give you the link.
Victory Comes Late
But when we refer to the poem, we have to put quotation marks around the title of a poem.
I am writing about "Victory Comes Late."
The title at the top of the article Monteiro wrote is
Dickinson's VICTORY COMES LATEBut in MLA style, we put poem titles in quotation marks. Since we also have to put quotation marks around the title of Monteiro's article, when writing an MLA-style works cited entry, we begin this way:
Monteiro, Katherine A. "Dickinson's 'Victory Comes Late'."
Note that the period goes inside the final close-quotation mark, but not inside the single quotes that denote the title of the work.
Your STW or Basic Comp textbook will have detailed examples on how
to present the titles of novels, collections of poems, plays, etc.
The academic journal Explicator is unusual because its purpose is to make a single, specific point about a single literary work -- something a professor or graduate student might have noticed and wants to share, but isn't important enough to write a whole book about.
If you have taken (or are taking) Seminar in Thinking and Writing, you will already know the difference between a a magazine article about a scholarly topic, and a peer-reviewed academic article on the same subject.
Here is a general handout on how to use the library database EBSCOhost in order to find scholarly sources.
"'Victory comes late' expresses Dickinson's quiet bitterness toward a God who promises so much to his people, and yet distributes merely crumbs allowing them just a glimpse of real joy" (Monteiro, "Dickinson's 'Victory Comes Late'.")
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/id_like_to_buy_dickinson_a_pai.html
Just a quick question. Are we supposed to blog an agenda item for this reading too?
"Perhaps Dickinson felt He had denied her personal happiness. In #690, though, her bitterness seems more universal. The poet questions a God who had been "so economical" with all of His "Sparrows," not just with Emily Dickinson (Katherine A. Monteriro)."
Check out my blog at:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/02/the_truth_behind_the_words.html
“Emily Dickinson had seen the ravages of the Civil War. She watched as many of Amherst’s finest young men returned home to a hero’s funeral” (31)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/dickinsons_influence.html
“Poem #690 profoundly questions the God who could allow his creation to suffer needlessly” (Monteiro 31).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/still_so_many_questions_left_u.html
"When the people believe the war necessary, not only to secure the nation and her principles, but to further the cause of Christ and morality, victory is charged with even more intensity" (Monteiro 31).
Read more here:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/02/war_and_god.html
"Victory comes to those who cannot even taste its sweetness through 'freezing lips,' just as it comes too late for soldiers who give their lives on the battlefield. No matter who wins the battle or the war, the victory means nothing to the dead" (Montiero).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/freezing_lips.html
"Most nineteenth-century American Protestants, like Emily Dickinson, did not confine Victory to an earthly battlefield. Victory became a spiritual condition."
"In a letter to her nieces in December of 1861, Dickinson had expressed concern for Stesrns' welfare: 'Ihope that ruddy won't be brought home frozen,' and image echoed in line two" (Monteiro 31).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/letter_reveals_meaning_of_sold_1.html
"'Victory comes late' expresses Dickinson's quiet bitterness toward a God who promises so much to his people, and yet distributes merely crumbs allowing them just a glimpse of real joy." (Monteiro 32)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/his_hate_and_pain_drowned_in_t.html
“Poem #690 profoundly questions the God who could allow his creation to suffer needlessly” (Monteiro 31).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndreaNestler/2008/02/ok_so_this_is_something_i_agre.html
“ ‘Victory Comes Late’ expresses Dickinson’s quiet bitterness toward a God who promises so much to his people, and yet distributes merely crumbs allowing them just a glimpse of real joy.” (page 32 from Katherine Monteiro on Dickinson’s “Victory Comes Late”)
View More at:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/02/dickinsons_selfish_god.html
"In a country at war, the word carries profound emotion. When the people believe the war necessary, not only to secure the nation and her principles, but to further the cause of Christ and morality, victory is charged with even more intensity. Dickinson quickly shatters that intense joy with the rest of line one. The hoped for victory comes too late and only after great suffering, so late in fact that i means nothing to the victor... No matter who wins the battle or the war, the victory means nothing to the dead" (Monteiro, 31)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/its_a_victory_but_at_what_cost.html
"'Victory comes late' expresses Dickinson's quiet bitterness toward a God who promises so much to his people, and yet distributes merely crumbs allowing them just a glimpse of real joy" (Monteiro, "Dickinson's 'Victory Comes Late'.")
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/id_like_to_buy_dickinson_a_pai.html
“No matter who wins the battle or the war, the victory means nothing to the dead.” (Monteiro)
General, you can lose the battle and win the war, but Heaven's another type of battlefield!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/general_you_can_lose_the_battl.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/02/god_and_victory.html
"The narrator definitely mourns, not for something held and lost, but for something desired, yet ultimately beyond grasp" (Monteiro 30-31).
"Dickinson quickly shatters that intense joy with the rest of line one. The hoped for victory comes too late and only after great suffering, so late in fact that it means nothing to the victor... No matter who wins the battle or the war, the victory means nothing to the dead." (Monteiro)
forgot the url
Victory comes to those who can not even taste its sweetness through "freezing lips", just as it comes too late for soldiers who give their lives on the battlefield. (Monteiro)
"The narrator definately mourns, not for something held and lost, but for something desired, yet ultimately beyond grasp." (Dickinson)
Well I chose this quote because I found this to be the exact way I feel about what we're studying right now. I would love to read the poems we're studying and get some meaning or understanding out of them, but usually it doesn't happen. Sometimes I feel the same way about all this blogging. No matter how much I try, it usually just doesn't work.