YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Essays 121 - 150
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
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 natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
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...
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...
clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...
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 ...
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...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
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...
and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
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...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...