YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Essays 61 - 90
In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...
In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's poem in terms of the poet's attitudes and feelings about time are analyzed. Th...
this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...
In six pages this paper examines how atmosphere, symbolism, incident, character, and theme are influenced by alienation and loneli...
avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
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...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
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 ...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
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...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
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...
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...
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...
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...