Emily Dickinson Museum

In the tomb of my mind, I can still hear the sounding sea. I can still see the death upon her eyes. Oh, author! Oh, raven! Thy beak is still deep in my heart. Edgar Allan Poe, in a literary career slightly exceeding more than twenty years, introduced the short story as a literary form, perfected the tale of psychological horror, and first articulated the idea of pure poetry. Pure poetry, as defined by Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the ‘message-free verse…

Take a slow, deep breath, winter is here. There is a particular stillness that characterizes winter and with it comes a subtle invitation to embrace a long, dark, season of slumber. This is the time to rest, reflect, hold space, vision, and hibernate. But unfortunately, the calm, peaceful nature of winter can also leave us feeling stagnant or un-inspired. Hibernating isn’t going to burn any calories and that’s why I write this article to make you feel inspired to stay healthy and take good care…

Rachel A. Hicks April 8,2017 Poetry Essay: Mary Oliver When one writes poetry they tend to write on subjects they feel strongly about and they turn those feelings into something beautiful. Mary Oliver uses the theme of nature in most, if not all, of her work to symbolize her passion for the outside, her overall questions and feelings about life itself. Mary Oliver went to two separate colleges yet never got a degree, she was very infatuated with poet Edna St.…

Mark Twain once stated, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” In Virginia Woolf’s essay The Death of the Moth, she observes the moth’s actions and the struggles it faces. Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes, and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death…

The Holiday, "Dia De Los Muertos," or, "Day of The Dead," if translated into English is held for three days from October 31st to November 2nd. The people of Mexico gather friends and family together during these few days and remember and pray for family members who have died. Members of the families from people who have died will build altars called "Ofrendas." These altars honor the deceased and are decorated with skulls made from sugar and marigold flowers. The Ofrendas also have the…

Emily Dickinson is saying that death is not something to be afraid of. The reasons why is because even before it is time to go into the afterlife death is kind and greets the ones dying, he takes a stroll around what the person's life was and all of the places…

Emily Dickenson has an openly bleak way of looking at the world. “The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film,” is one of her many short poems. Her works have a gothic style that changes with her mood. The day she wrote this, I imagine that she was watching people out her window. It is easy to judge a book by its cover, but the cover is meant to engage you. Here Emily is artfully saying that even with a hint of distraction or decoration, a whole picture is still seen. Whether looking at people,…

Ashley Broom Dr. Ellis English 391 1 March 2016 Sacred Sarcasm and Skepticism: Emily Dickinson’s Disbelief of Heaven Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson struggled with believing in the existence of Heaven, and wrote many poems on doubt and skepticism of an afterlife. She grew up in a religious bubble where people were constantly telling her how they experienced their faith, and the feelings they had that were associated with things like prayer and death. A good portion of Dickinson’s poetry…

In these two poems, Remember and The Cross of Snow, bot talk about death and how the loved ones grieved for that death. Both poems have similarities with repition, rhyme scheme, and a shit, but they also have differences with point of view, metaphors, allusions, and an overall different message. In Rember, it repeats the phrase "gone away" which emphasizes the solemness of death. the same thing happens in the first two lines of the other poem. It repeats the word "long" which is addressed to…

as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Kafka put their own emotions and even occurrences from their life into their literature. This shows how their view affects the way they write their stories as well as how in depth they go, giving the literature much more interesting and pursuing a greater experience for the reader. Emily Dickinson inserts an abundance of her emotions and feelings into her works and it shows through the point of view. A poem that applies to this concept by Dickinson is…