YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet
Essays 61 - 90
My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...
to hear, these discourses are important and add to American historical knowledge. Jacobs, in Life of a Slave Girl of course incor...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...
This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
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...
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...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...
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 "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
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...
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 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 ...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
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...
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...
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 provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...