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As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

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...

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

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In five pages this paper examines the nobility of friendship from the perspectives of these literary giants. Four sources are cit...

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

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...