Essays on Emily Dickinson

The poem, ‘I’m nobody, who are you?’ is about one and a half centuries old. Yet, it hits the nerve of our time: The digital 21st century in which everybody is somebody on the World Wide Web. Emily Dickinson, the US poet born in 1830, was what we would now call a loner. She chose few, very close friends during her lifetime which she mainly spend alone, writing poems and letters to near ones. She carefully chose what to share and with whom, confiding her thoughts and feelings mainly to paper. What

the thing with feathers”, the gift of hope is compared to a singing bird. This poem is made up of two quatrains and two couplets with a set rhyme scheme. Emily Dickinson uses many different literary elements and techniques to convey the theme of hope. Through the application of sensory imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and poetic devices, Dickinson displays that hope is an infinite, brave, and unselfish gift that is always present. The poem is about a bird that can be closely related to hope. In the

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” Dickinson gives the indication that the speaker could be descending into a world of madness. No one could conceive of becoming conscious and finding themselves trapped inside of a coffin, in the midst of a funeral service and realize it is for them. Quite often in the 1800’s when a family member died without obvious explanation, a string was attached to the little finger and threaded up to a bell on the outside of the grave. The purpose

tell us is that, “hope,” can be something someone has. Emily Dickinson wrote in her poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” that hope is like a bird. In the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hope is something they believed in for when the fuku had gone away. Hope cannot prevail unless there has been some sort of suffering. Both this poem and novel exemplify the suffering that has to happen before you can have hope. Emily Dickinson and Junot Diaz write about suffering and finding hope,

prominent elements of renowned poet Emily Dickinson’s pieces. By using a small variety of formats, namely short and assertive, with long and flowy on the contrary, Dickinson is able to convey the complexity of the topic at hand, or the gravity of the issue. Dickinson also uses varying diction in order to differentiate how she views potentially controversial subjects; sometimes using ornate vocabulary and other times making blunt statements to do so. Using these tools, Dickinson productively conveys the message

The poem “Because I could not stop for Death (479)” by Emily Dickinson describes author’s concept of the last seconds of a life as well as her concept of the death. The poem follows a comparatively simple “ABCB” rhyme scheme, which indicates that the poetess’s goal is not to exercise her writing skills, but to reflect her opinion. By this poem Emily Dickinson presents a new way of thinking about the death. The speaker of the poem, assumingly a female, does not expect her own death - her life is so

Emily Dickinson “I know that He exists,” is the first line in one of Emily Dickinson’s many poems. This is poem number 338, and it is one of her most famous poems even though most people do not understand it (Faulkner 8). Emily Dickinson is a well-known poet, but it was not always like that. During her lifetime, Dickinson rarely published her poems, and it was not until later that she became famous for her work (Crumbley 1). During Emily Dickinson’s life, she was a reserved person, to the point

have encompassed a significant portion of prosodic literature. Two of the foremost war poets of the 19th and 20th century—Emily Dickinson and Rupert Brooke—have both written about profound implications of war on society and also upon the human spirit albeit in two very different styles. The book, Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, theorizes through Allie, that Emily Dickinson was indubitably the superior war poet. Furthermore, when we analyze their works as well, we realize the invariable fact that

in Emily Dickson’s poetry. Due to her introverted and isolated personality, Dickinson tended to write poems that included themes of death and immortality. In Death is a Dialogue Between, Dickinson illustrates the dispute between Death and a Spirit. In contrast to other American poets, Dickinson’s unique style of punctuation, formatting, as well as themes of mortality and death distinguished her from her contemporaries. Although Death is a Dialogue Between was written as a free verse, Emily Dickinson’s

Riddle Emily Dickinson died before her works were attempted to be analyzed and interpreted, “suggesting perhaps that the mysteries, abstractions, and double meanings were for her own enjoyment, and all answers—if there were any—died with her” (“Explanation”). Glimpsing at just a few of Dickinson’s poems is sure to catch the eye of a reader, posing questions of grammatical soundness. Capital letters, dots, and dashes appear consistently, but maybe there is a reason behind it all. Emily Dickinson uses