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Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

Emily Dickinson's Views of Self and Society

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's, 'I Like to See it Lap the Miles'

stops "At its own stable door" (Dickinson 16). But, when we note that trains were, and still are, often referred to as iron horses...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility' (#657)

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

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...

Emily Dickinson's Hardships

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I heard a Fly buzz…'

"Heaves of Storms" in the last line of the first stanza is a metaphor that conjures the image of violent storms, but also suggests...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

'My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson Analyzed Psychologically

In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...

Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses plot, purpose, characterizations, structural strategy and how the conclusion reflects...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is explicated and analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

Richard Wilbur and Emily Dickinson

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...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Old South Traditions in Faulkner's 'A Rose For Emily'

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...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Carl Sandburg

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...