Dickinson

believes it is simply another period in their lives. Emily Dickinson welcomes death in her poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, like a suitor calling on her for an outing. Dickinson visualizes death as a customary carriage ride. On the other hand, many individuals are not willing to let go and believe they must stick it out until the end, such as Dylan Thomas, in his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”. Although Dickinson and Thomas both utilize the message of death in their…

Poetry, is one such art that allows its creator to call upon a variety of emotions. Whether those emotions are a sense of delight, anger, contempt, sorrow, etc, all are forms of emotion and are easily seen throughout the many poems written by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Paul Lurance Dunbar. When these poets fuse their emotions with their words, we the readers are able to feel a fraction of what they might have felt at the time of the poems creation. It is this component that allows the…

Both Emily Dickinson’s and Walt Whitman’s poems have numerous differences. Their writing styles differ as well, in that Emily Dickinson’s are short and simple, while Walt Whitman’s are long, complex and largely prose-style. In Whitman’s work, “Song of Myself”, you learn much about the author. The poem was written in phases, and on page 1024, the notes at the bottom of the page describe how the title of this poem was changed throughout the years. I think this is a semblance of how the poem’s…

As the title of Emily Dickson’s poems says, “The brain- is wider than the sky- for – put them side by side”, which means that the brain will take in the sky. Fourth line of poem says, “With ease—and You—beside.” She tries to says that the brain is deeper than the sea, and that its “Blue to Blue,” and that the brain will absorb the sea as sponges and like buckets absorb water. The brain, as she says, is like a heavy weight in God and the brain’s weight which will get away from the weight of God…

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson went on to be one of the most known and greatest American poets. This is due to her very unique and interesting writing style that has puzzled and intrigued readers for a long time. Dickinson wrote during a well-known time called Realism and that helped shape her writing. Her personal experiences also affected her dark and depressing writing, including the death of family members and friends, and the sickness all around her. In “Because I Could…

Emily Dickinson's poem “Because I could not stop for Death” calls attention to how people rush through life without taking the time to stop and enjoy life while they can. Dickinson employs a plethora of poetic devices including personification, dashes, and capitalization. Dickinson personifies Death is not a destination so much as it is a companion in a stage of life; The dashes she uses in the poem to show reader the joy of taking one’s time and through that we see why it’s important to take…

For example, in her poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson writes “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me- / The Carriage held but…

Dickinson, who grew up in a Puritan environment, rejected many core tenants of Christianity such as sin and damnation, and her idea of eternity greatly diverged from the typical materialistic view of Heaven. However, she also did not conform to the tenants of Transcendentalism as her emphasis on the incomprehensibility of one’s spirituality and after-life clashed with the traditional belief in the full participation and absolute knowledge of the universe. As witnessed in much of her poetry,…

Emerson, and David Thoreau are some of the more popular writers of this movement. Emily Dickinson was born during the middle of this movement. Many people call her a transcendentalist writer. Others think that since Dickinson was influence by some of the writers of this time period, the ideas of transcendentalism just reflected in her own work. The question still remains, “Are people supposed to consider Emily Dickinson a transcendentalist write?” Transcendentalist focus on many different…

I agree with Dickinson and her message in Much Madness is divinest Sense is, which is, to put it simply, that conformity is insanity. Others may state that conforming to the majority in some situations can be good, which I also concur with. However, Dickinson isn’t speaking of situational conformity; she’s speaking of psychological conformity - opinions rather than actions. “Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye” - the first and second lines of the poem, state how only those with…