Emily Dickinson Museum

darkness? According to Emily Dickinson, there are two types of viewing darkness, metaphorically and physically. Physically is the state in which it is actually happening while metaphorically is the in which the mindset creates it. Therefore Dickinson explains her perspective of darkness in a metaphorical terminology and language. Dickinson expresses her thoughts and imaginations as she experiences darkness herself. In the first poem, “Before I got my eyes put out,” by Emily Dickinson explains…

With the alternative music industry exhausted by guitar-wielding, male artist, who bear parallel sounds and tunes, it was beyond refreshing to hear the unique melodies and deep, mysterious tones of Ella Yelich-O’Connor, also known as Lorde. Comparable to nineties alternative bands Mazzy Star and Portishead, Lorde let’s her music do the talking for her (Lipshutz, Jason). Said to be less worried about the emotional baggage of a prosperous music career, Lorde would rather focus her attention on…

Death is considered part of the life cycle. There are many different ideas and opinions about death. Within the three poems “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant, “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult, and “Dust In The Wind” by Kansas, the writers all refer to death. Even though the topics of the poems are similar, they all have different points of view towards death. The first poem, “Thanatopsis”, tends to glorify life. In the poem, nature talks to the reader about death and how your…

Walt Whitman/Emily Dickinson Clash Essay Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were both highly influential poetic writers in the twentieth century. Whitman portrayed the major characteristics of a transcendentalist while Dickinson demonstrated the core ideas of a realist. Whitman grew up in New York City and became a teacher at the age of seventeen. He despised the profession and quit because he believed that it was absurd to force students to conform to society’s standards. Whitman’s life is…

be lacking that sense to see. Usely when communicating people rely one sight, but very few people rely on sight to understand. Emily Dickinson wrote a lot of poems such as “We grow accustomed to the dark” Also “When I got my eye put out.” The Narrative of both poems talk about sight in two different ways. The sense of sight is view in many different ways, Emily Dickinson gives the reader two distinct perspectives. In these two poems there’s two different perspective of the same thing dealing…

I chose to compare are both written by Emily Dickenson; the first poem is “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,” and the second is “[The Brain- is wider than the Sky].” These poems were written 4 years apart, the first coming in 1862, and the second was written in 1866. While we read “[The Brain- is wider than the Sky]” for class, we did not read “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.” These two poems are very different, while at the same time they are very similar; Emily Dickenson has a special way of…

where they are coming from, to know the reasons why you have to know a little bit about their background. Emily Dickinson is a perfect example because all of her writings have something to do with her life and the way she felt. Others can also easily relate to her work. Similarly, Everyone experiences the feeling of not being able to overcome sadness at least once in their lifetime. Emily Dickinson makes this feeling a reality in the poem I measure every Grief I meet. In this poem, a girl…

Emily Dickinson was an outstanding writer who left behind a whole legacy of poetic work that is still read in the present. She reveals and indicated with her way of writing all the struggles and internal feelings she had when living in seclusion. She wrote approximately 1800 poems, which were later found by her family after her departure. Her poems are said to be arranged in chronological order, but if her family is the one who published her work, how are we certain she wrote them in that…

Do people think of death as a person? Although this seems like a strange a question, many poems personify death. “Because I could not stop for Death,” by Emily Dickinson, “Death, be not proud,” by John Donne, are two examples of this. “I heard a fly buzz – when I died,” also by Dickinson, is an example of a poem that does not personify death. Although some people think of death as a one sided-topic, these poems explore the multiple sides of Death. For example, in one poem the author thinks of…

Emily Dickinson was a very popular writer in the age of Transcendentalism. She was well known for her morbid and dark writing. While she was very famous, she hardly knew it. She died of illness in May of 1886. She was a very isolated person. After her father died, she stopped going places and cut many of the friendships she had. One of the most well known poems by Dickinson was ‘Because I could not stop for Death’. This poem had a very simple meaning behind it yet it was complex all at the same…