YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Essays 61 - 90
In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....
Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...
This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...
In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the death perspectives featured in the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson ...
Glossary of Literary Terms) by exposing opposite truths, as it relates to her perception of death. Retaining ones dignity i...
Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...
In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...
61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...
however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...