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and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
Ourselves - / And Immortality" (Dickinson 1-4). In this one can truly envision the picture she is creating with imagery. She offer...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...
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...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
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...
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 ...
This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...
This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...
this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...
In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...
This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...
In 4 pages this paper explores the biographical elements of this Dickinson poem that are obscured by her uses of legal jargon. Th...
In five pages lesbian theory is applied to an analysis of 'Master Letters.' Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography....
that in this poem, Dickinson sees death as a "courtly lover," accepting at face value the lines concerning his "civility" (Griffit...