YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :My Life had stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Essays 91 - 120
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 ...
In four pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is explicated and analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...
on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...
each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...
In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...
In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...
Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
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...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...
is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
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...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
subject to "two competing philosophies" (Gorman and Kopel). In countries like the U.S. and other democracies that derive their pow...
This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...
Discusses pros and cons of gun control in the U.S. while pointing out that the current solutions aren't particularly effective...
that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...
however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...