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The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

Themes of Death in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's, 'I Like to See it Lap the Miles'

stops "At its own stable door" (Dickinson 16). But, when we note that trains were, and still are, often referred to as iron horses...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

Poetic Devices in Emily Dickinson's Works

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

Emily Dickinson's 'Publication is the Auction'

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Marketing the Frigidaire Front-Loading Washing Machine

at the time and promised to be of even greater importance in the future. Frigidaire needed to be positioned to take advantage of ...

Legislation Regarding Gun Control

Some politicians are clamoring for greater restrictions on guns. They include licensing that is mandatory, and a maximum number o...

Essay on the Pros and Cons of Gun Control

It is a very small price to pay in order to fortify the level of safety that is so quickly plummeting in todays society (Anonymous...

The Obvious Choice of Al Gore for President in 2000

In five pages this paper supports Al Gore's presidential candidacy over Republican opponent George W. Bush by contrasting politica...

Both Sides of the Gun Control Issue

subject to "two competing philosophies" (Gorman and Kopel). In countries like the U.S. and other democracies that derive their pow...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

DO WE NEED MORE GUN CONTROL?

Discusses pros and cons of gun control in the U.S. while pointing out that the current solutions aren't particularly effective...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore as Descendants of Emily Dickinson?

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

Richard Wilbur and Emily Dickinson

it becomes docile, perhaps nothing, without the power of men. It waits at its stable to be ridden once more. We see how she relate...