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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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

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

me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...

accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...

Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...

An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...

In eight pages this paper discusses the social and political influences Walt Whitman exerted through his poetry from an historical...