YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :I Send Two Sunsets by Emily Dickinson
Essays 61 - 90
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
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...
the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...
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...
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...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
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...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...
however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
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...
is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...