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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...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

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...

'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 ...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

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

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...

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson and the Connection Between Poet, Nature, Body, and Soul

In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

Influences on Emily Dickinson

This paper asserts that the main motivator for Emily Dickinson's works were the physical and spiritual influences in her life. Thi...

2 Articles on Narcissism

we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...

Poetry Defined

This paper defines poetry and considers its development and various structures in four pages with Ogden Nash and Emily Dickinson's...

Comparing Blake & Dickinson Poems

of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...

Church Teachings and Emily Dickinson

will on the other hand speak endlessly of the pleasure of paradise. It might possibly be that Ms. Dickinson, though influenced by ...

Symbols Used in Poetry and in the Bible

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

Kathleen Norris and Emily Dickinson

This essay focuses on the writing of Emily Dickinson and Kathleen Norris and takes the form of a journal entry. One page pertains ...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Historical Context of Emily Dickinson

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the theme, tone, meter, rhythm, form, and imagery of Dickinson's poetry structure in poem 754 are examined. There a...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

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...

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...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Death Theme in Poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Common Themes

In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...