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    Emily Dickinson, an introverted American poet with epilepsy, wrote her way into the world of literature in a distinctive and intriguing manner. Her words, while often unrhymed, have left a perpetual ringing in the minds of her readers. Her poems will forever provide them with wonder, however, one may find themselves speculating about what influenced Miss Dickinson to write her poetry the way that she did. Richard Wilbur, an American poet, described Emily Dickinson with the following quote; “I…

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    Death” by Emily Dickinson was written in 1863, it is still relevant today. Not only does it represent what Dickinson was feeling, and shows how people today can relate to the poem, I’m one of those people that cannot help but to feel emotional towers the poem. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems reflect what she was going through during the time that she was writing each of her poems. In 1830, Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts where she lives her whole life. Even though Dickinson…

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    Dickinson ultimately wants her readers to question whether beauty and truth are worth dying for. Dickinson uses the themes of beauty and truth to convey that material accomplishments during life have insignificant influences on future societies and on death. To open the poem, we are painted a scene of…

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    Emily Dickinson was a 19th century poet known for her extremely introverted personality and morbid attitude. She strayed away from the normalities of her time by not conforming to the expectancies placed upon women during her time and strayed away from the typical mid-1800’s literature by writing sorrowful and dark poetry which wasn’t widely accepted at that point. Emily Dickinson had a dark soul and expressed it despite the criticism she received from the critics and society of her time. Her…

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    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…

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    The highly introverted, American poet Emily Dickinson liked to play with intellectual curiosity, psychological extremities, and emotional clarity within her poetry that was not yet published until after her death in 1886. The unsettling intensity of her vision and ability to set out deep matters of our psyche in “simple” terms set her and her poetry apart from any other poet known today. Dickinson’s seclusion during her lifetime proved to have great influence over her literary works,…

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    A Examination of the Shock of Death: Emily Dickinson 's’ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” are both poems written by Emily Dickinson, the former in 1863 and the latter in 1862. According to Christopher Nesmith writer of “Dickinson 's I Heard a Fly Buzz” “Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems are enigmatic, but perhaps none baffles its readers more than ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died”…

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    groups of people, temperature or a certain place. And while stepping outside of your comfort zone is important and necessary in life, sometimes you need to be in your own safe space to be able to relax, open up and be productive. Although Emily Dickinson actively removed herself from society and didn’t travel to gain inspiration like other authors, she did spend time immersing her mind in her subject matter, life. Because of this, her poetry expresses potent emotional ideas and truths of the…

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    The beginning and end of the average human’s lifespan can be mirrored by the mere tick of the Earth’s second hand. Yet, life is not defined by the beginning or end of that second but rather how we choose to spend the fleeting milliseconds that pass by. It is this message that Virginia Woolf conveyed in her essay, The Death of the Moth, detailing the struggle of a moth against the inevitability of death. The moth’s earnest efforts to live in its last moments turns the meaning of life into a…

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    Have you ever read poetry that can inspire you in your everyday life? Poetry that discusses the deep truth about our world and the people who wander it? Well, there is some poetry that can give you a better understanding about life,ourselves, and how to handle situations that come across our path. Inspiring you and motivating you to do your best. This types of poetry can really give the reader a deep knowledge about how to challenge the unknowns. Guiding you on how to work on your up and down…

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