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Poetic Spiders

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

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...

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...

Death and the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the death perspectives featured in the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson ...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

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

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Transcendentalism

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

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...

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...

'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....

'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is analyzed in terms of personification, message, and theme along with other literary ...

Time and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...

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...

'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 ...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

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...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

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. ...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore as Descendants of Emily Dickinson?

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

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...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

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...

A Rose for Emily

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

Life and Writings of William Faulkner

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and the Evil Protagonist

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....