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

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

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...

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 "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...

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...

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

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...

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

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

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

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...

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

are likely to be found. To provide contrast, the gender of the second guest should be the opposite of the first guest. There will ...