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of God resides in all people, thus resulting in fundamental human goodness (Wohlpart, 2004). However, it is important to note tha...

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

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

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

This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...

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

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

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...

on all aspects of Transcendentalism in one way or another, for her poetry was very much that which developed as Emily herself went...

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...

Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...

conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...

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...

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

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

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

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

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

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...

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 ...

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 truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

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

This paper examines Emily Dickinson's life, attitudes, and poetry in 7 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...