Emily Dickinson Museum

Emily Dickinson Nesmith’s reasoning for the fly made perfect sense. The fly was a normal occurrence, or annoyance, in this part of her life. He sums up the fly’s presence by saying, “Even during significant events, life goes on, much of it rather mundane” (Nesmith, 1939). Dickinson was writing about her death. There is nothing more serious than the beginning of a life or the ending of a life. Focus is on the emotions, the welfare, and the comfort in situations such as death. Dickinson’s poem…

Emily Dickinson lead a very interesting life style. At the age of thirty, Dickinson became very reclusive, rarely venturing from her home. She devoted most of her time to writing and only had occasional visitors. Emily Dickinson wrote predominantly poems and was very different in her writing style. Brett Wells explains that, “Dickinson is known posthumously for her unusual use of form and syntax.” Dickinson loved to use dashes in her writing and her handwriting was atrocious. Emily Dickinson is…

“The Tide Rises, The TIde Falls:” The Way It All Ends I chose this poem because it highly relates to the real world in the way we live and die. What began to grab my attention was the way it utilized the imagery and the way that it speaks about death in a hidden way, but yet in a sense that you are still able to understand that it is about the way life ends. The poem's theme is death, it is the message of the author trying to tell us that life ends and people constantly come and go because no…

From the first stanza, the Emily Dickinson starts off with a hopeful suggestion to the audience that “hope” is like a thing with feathers which is perched within the soul. The author seems to be using the metaphor that hope is like a bird because birds with feathers. Since birds perch on objects, the soul is used as a metaphor to suggest to the audience that the bird or hope is sitting inside the person. The audience from this point could assume that the bird or hope is inside every person. The…

Part One: Topic 2 2. Explain how the blackberries, the birds, and the flies are contextual symbols. I think the blackberries are being used to represent a person’s life. In the beginning of a journey, the blackberries are ripe. The “blackberry alley” end in the second stanza. In the third stanza, “of white and pewter lights” could represent the end of the journey. The birds she identified as choughs. They resemble a crow. Crows are often used to symbolize, or relate to death. Crows…

. Emily Dickinson is known for writing poems that relate to the way she feels about certain emotions or inevitable events, such as life or death. My first impression of this particular poem is that Dickinson was feeling sorrowful or hurt. I can definitely tell that many harsh feelings were felt while writing this poem. When analyzing this poem, many things stand out to me that let me know how deeply Dickinson felt her pain and also how often she thinks of her own pain. The title itself lets…

if they can’t see? Put yourself in Emily Dickinson's shoes. Even Though she is literally speaking about not being able to see, her poems might have a metaphorical message. In the first poem, she speaks about how we might get blinded by things in life or we might have a struggle and figure it out and overcome it. In the second poem, she wants to state the fact that her vision is fading and she doesn't appreciate the things she can't see. In this poem Dickinson is talking about how something is…

Different tones in Dickinson’s poetry Emily Dickinson was a well known poet who is known often for her contradictory patterns. Comparing her two poems, “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz- when I Died” show a distinct different tone. For instance in the beginning of “fly buzz..”, the fly can be related to the “lord of the flies” or the devil. Thus symbolizing the speakers struggle at some point. “Between the light and me” suggests that the speaker is on their way to…

Poem Analysis – The Thin Red Snake Death does not wait; it is sudden, abrupt, and unexpected. One may imagine that life will go on forever, but the painful and inevitable truth is that it simply does not, and that someday, somehow, somewhere, anyone will die. This is the message in Yash Arora’s “The Thin Red Snake”. The free-verse poem begins by outlining the journey of a thin red snake, as it climbs and descends through a terrain. Immediately after this, there are three consecutive beeps, which…

Critical Analysis Leah Zimmerman Walt Whitman and Robert frost both use symbolism and analogies to bear a personal and detailed style of writing. Both poets refer to passionate moments without actually saying what is really happening. This makes the reader stop and think, and relate to their own experiences in life while reading. Both poems are passionate and well driven. Robert Frost poem is about making life choices. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.”…