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Essays 61 - 90
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...
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...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
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...
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...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
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...
This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...
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...
This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...
from a diversity of factors including: "blockage by wax, infection, a collection of fluid, trauma...
at this simple, and brief examination, and bring into play the moral resources discussed by Jonathan Glover in "All About Evil." I...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...
And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
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,...