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the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

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

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

to defer to clergy as people in other churches (Stewart, 1983). These attitudes would be expected if one considers the three tradi...

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

the season to mere consumerism" (Dwyer, 2004). As noted above, it is this "hypersensitivity" and our attempt to avoid offending an...

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

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...