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A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'After Great Pain…'

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

Did the Founding Fathers Really Intend for a Total Separation between Church and State?

The writer presents a comprehensive discussion on whether or not the founding Fathers intended for there to be separation of churc...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

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

Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Carl Sandburg

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

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 ...

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...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

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...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

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...

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...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Common Themes

In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Poems by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson

In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...

Death Theme in Poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I heard a Fly buzz…'

"Heaves of Storms" in the last line of the first stanza is a metaphor that conjures the image of violent storms, but also suggests...

Death and the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the death perspectives featured in the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson ...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is analyzed in terms of personification, message, and theme along with other literary ...