YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :My Life had stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Essays 61 - 90
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
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 ...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
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...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...
In ten pages this paper considers the poet and her poetry in terms of her preferred themes and life as a recluse. Ten sources are...
This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...
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...
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...
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...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
at the time and promised to be of even greater importance in the future. Frigidaire needed to be positioned to take advantage of ...
Some politicians are clamoring for greater restrictions on guns. They include licensing that is mandatory, and a maximum number o...
It is a very small price to pay in order to fortify the level of safety that is so quickly plummeting in todays society (Anonymous...
In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...
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 supports Al Gore's presidential candidacy over Republican opponent George W. Bush by contrasting politica...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the death perspectives featured in the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson ...
This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...