YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
Essays 181 - 210
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...
for her considerable work and success as the CEO of eBay. However, Whitman was not always a part of this international internet ph...
perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...
When his master died he began to wander and travel, as a pilgrim (Hermitary). After a few years of traveling it seems that a perso...
This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...
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...
And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
it becomes docile, perhaps nothing, without the power of men. It waits at its stable to be ridden once more. We see how she relate...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...
the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...
all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...
came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...
In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...
This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...
In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...
"Heaves of Storms" in the last line of the first stanza is a metaphor that conjures the image of violent storms, but also suggests...
In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...
of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...
In four pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is explicated and analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...
her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...
In three pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is analyzed in terms of personification, message, and theme along with other literary ...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...