YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Emily Dickinsons Poetic Truth
Essays 31 - 60
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...
that in this poem, Dickinson sees death as a "courtly lover," accepting at face value the lines concerning his "civility" (Griffit...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...
born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...
stops "At its own stable door" (Dickinson 16). But, when we note that trains were, and still are, often referred to as iron horses...
be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...
Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
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...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...
of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...
on all aspects of Transcendentalism in one way or another, for her poetry was very much that which developed as Emily herself went...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...
were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...
the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...