YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analyzing the 1863 Poem My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...
In seven pages this paper examines how the social oppression of Southern women is represented through the constrictions Emily stil...
In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...
secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...
This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...
In five pages this poem is examined in a consideration of figurative language, imagery, and tone. There are no other sources list...
In four pages this poem is explicated and analyzed. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....
In three pages this poem is explicated in terms of the style which is reminiscent of Protestant hymns rhythms and also considers t...
In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...
In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper examines the nobility of friendship from the perspectives of these literary giants. Four sources are cit...
In a paper consisting of five pages the attitudes of these poets regarding God are discussed in terms of how they are reflected in...
it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...
of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...
of this world. She is saying good-by to earthly cares and experience and learning to focus her attention in a new way, which is re...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...