Emily Dickinson Museum

Every induvial is born with a finite life span, that of which is unknown. The concept of eternal rest is one that hinders minds, holding different interpretations. Death, the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to existence, is a facet of life that every individual becomes acquainted with. Writers have used this notion of death as the basis for many literary works. Holding a negative denotation, literary writers have created a new image for the face of death, giving it human…

madness it is not love.”(Pedro Calderón de la Barca). Emily Dickinson is considered to be a very influential poet of the twenty first century, though Dickinson’s work was not recognized in her lifetime.That said Dickinson poetry projects many different symbolic meaning onto the reader which are not clearly comprehended, her poetry in my opinion seems to have characteristics of religious believes and a mad obsession with death. Emily Dickinson is arguably the most famous American poet of the 18th…

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Sky is low--the Clouds are mean” is a lyrical poem that depicts nature through a non-traditional perspective. While nature in poetry is often portrayed as being beautiful, peaceful, and essentially flawless, in this poem Dickinson intends for the audience to view nature from a different perspective. The entirety of the poem follows with a sad, dull tone while describing nature on a cold, windy, and cloudy day. Dickinson is careful to emulate aspects of a cloudy day…

death 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…

“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun,” (Ln 1) the primary symbol is presented. The metaphor that first stanza is crucial in that the speaker now believes herself to be a lethal weapon. Dickinson is not like a loaded gun but the actual gun itself. In an excerpt from Rich’s book Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson the split between being an object and an active, willing human person is made evident. The struggle between the two conflicting ideas of femininity and masculinity are mirrored by…

An image alone has the ability to be worth a thousand words, but paired together with poetry, it expresses much more. Emily Dickinson, an American poet, created true works of art that often had ambiguous meaning. Dickinson’s poetry continuously constructed dominant images that, needless to say, didn’t need illustrations. Emily Dickinson’s Civil War poems specifically, contain descriptions of graphic images that also fit well with the photo taken by American Photographer, Timothy H. O’Sullivan.…

Emily Dickinson, a famously known American poet, was someone who seemed fascinated when it came to the matter of death. Dickinson was so engulfed over the thought and perspective of death, that the poems and letters she left behind even included poems over her own death. Her engrossment with such a theme gives her poems a unique twist of a taste, and provides the audience insight to the author’s mind after not being left with much of the author themselves. Her obsession of death is portrayed…

In many of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, disruptions of conventional literary standards frequently occur. While this includes different aspects of poetry, such as theme, perspective, diction, and other poetic devices, her experimental syntactic constructions are particularly notable. One of Dickinson’s poems, “A Day,” provides an example of her prolific usage of punctuations and syntax, and this contributes to successfully conveying the theme of the poem. The poetry portrays a vivid, detailed…

The title at 39 is very significant and could be interpreted as the age she wrote this poem or at what age her father died. She explains the situation her father is in at that point in time which is very important to her, this poem is written in free verse and short lines. The poem is not very structured so it seems like she is thinking about this rather than writing it, flowing from one thought to another and finally coming to a conclusion. By repeating the phrase ‘’How I miss my father’’(1)…

look at these vast topics and they individualize them. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered two of the most American prominent poets, their personally styles are totally different and similar in comparative ways. Walt Whitman in “I Sing the Body Electric” examines the beauty of the human body and decribes its importance in connecting with the soul. However, the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, by Emily Dickinson, is an abstract statement on the relationship between the body and…