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dead of night in dripping and deserted city streets. They live without mans protection, without his love, squabbling over scraps o...

In deciding how to interpret Call of the Wild, another comment made by Labor is also insightful, as he writes that "In book after...

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

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

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...

considered to be bad, considered to be an arrogant young girl who betrayed her people by speaking the language of the oppressors. ...

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 ...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

lives, stating, "The idea is almost laughable, if it werent so tragic, laments Eldredge. Men have been taken out right and left. S...

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...

her to be a good school girl and she seems just about ready, at the beginning of the story, to break free from this. What happen...

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...

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

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...

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

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, ...

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...

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

up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...

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

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...