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Essays 91 - 120
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
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...
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...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
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...
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...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
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...
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...
stops "At its own stable door" (Dickinson 16). But, when we note that trains were, and still are, often referred to as iron horses...
Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...
This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...
This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...