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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...

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...

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

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

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, ...

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...

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

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

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

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

In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...

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

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

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

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

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

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...

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

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

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

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...

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

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

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

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses plot, purpose, characterizations, structural strategy and how the conclusion reflects...

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