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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...

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

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...

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...

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

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

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...

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

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

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...

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

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...