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'A Bird Came Down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages this poem is examined in a consideration of figurative language, imagery, and tone. There are no other sources list...

'Apparently With No Surprise' by Emily Dickinson

In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...

Analyzing the 1863 Poem 'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman and 'A Spider Sewed At Night' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare on Friendship

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

'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the theme, tone, meter, rhythm, form, and imagery of Dickinson's poetry structure in poem 754 are examined. There a...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Its Religious Aspects

In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...

Influences of Nature and Biography in the Works of Emily Dickinson

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

Emily Dickinson and the Poems of Fascicle Twenty-Eight

to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...

Ten Poems by Emily Dickinson

of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...

Lesbian Theory and 'Master Letters' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages lesbian theory is applied to an analysis of 'Master Letters.' Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

Historical Context of Emily Dickinson

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Number 305 'The difference between Despair' by Emily Dickinson

Additionally, Dickinson makes creative use of punctuation to create dramatic pauses between lines, as well as within them. The ...

The Imagery of Death in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

As a gun, Dickinson speaks for "Him" (line 7) and the Mountains echo the sound of her fire. Paula Bennett comments that "Whatever ...

John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Kilmer, and the Poetic Uses of Imagery

Ourselves - / And Immortality" (Dickinson 1-4). In this one can truly envision the picture she is creating with imagery. She offer...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

'I HAD been hungry all these years' by Emily Dickinson

turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...

Death in Hospice Verses Death in Death Row Incarceration

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

Attitudes Seen in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

Motive and Meaning: A Rose for Emily

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" - Southern Society and the Grotesque

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

Emily Grierson a Grotesque Character

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...