Emily Dickinson Museum

Much Madness is divinest Sense - by Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - ’Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail - Assent - and you are sane - Demur - you’re straightway dangerous - And handled with a Chain - In Shirley Jackson’s intriguing short story “The Lottery,” the reader witnesses the power of conformity. The residents of the town take part in a barbaric stoning ceremony simply because it is a tradition from many…

In the story “the death of the moth” by Virginia Woolf, it introduces Woolf comparing a moth to a butterflies and how it’s not gay like the butterflies. only describing the moth appearances like his wings as “hay-colored wings”, yet “seemed to be content with life”. In the essay Wool if seemed to be reading a book instead daydream off into the world. Soon after Virginia Woolf noticed the moth flying around from side to side at the window pane, Woolf tone in the essay suddenly changes. In…

As I Lay Dying brings forth multiple themes that are seen throughout the characters’ spiritual, mental, and physical lives. Mortality exists in all three aspects of the Bundren family’s lives. In the novel, death looms over each of the characters’ lives spiritually and physically. Faulkner uses death as a reminder that after this life there is a relief in death; additionally, for religious characters death is a reward after living well and accomplishing your work (Shmoop Editorial Team 2). The…

Another poem that everyone naturally seems to translate as about a woman is Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood…a Loaded Gun.” Quite honestly, this analysis seems to be completely based upon the fact that it was written by a woman. However, Emily Dickinson was a bit of a recluse and her poetry was not discovered till after her death. “Giving rise to much ambiguity, both homosexual and heterosexual elements pervade her work. In numerous poems, it is impossible to determine the genders and…

the poet, Emily Dickinson, is talking about how she lost sight of what was really important, but soon grew accustomed and started to find her way. In “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the poet, Emily Dickinson, is talking about how she lost her sight in something but she gained her mind and her knowledge. Emily Dickinson’s poems “We grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” both loses something but both react differently. In “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” the poet, Emily…

Death comes for every living creature there is, death is inevitable. In "the dead", by James Joyce uses imagery, point of view, and motif. Along with that being said, James Joyce uses imagery to give the readers an image of how Gabriel is shown and represented in the story. For instance, in the beginning of the story James Joyce uses imagery to give an image to the reader of how Gabriel is shown. "Gabriel, leaning on his elbow, looked for a few moments unresentfully on her tangled hair and half…

beholder. In other words, everyone interprets the world in a different way. One poet who truly has her own unique view on life is Emily Dickinson. Dillan states, “By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely.” While she was alive, Dickinson only published a handful of poems. Emily dickinson’s poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close”, and “The Brain is…

The Ambivalent Tragedy of a Good Death: Reflections on How to Die in Oregon By Nathan Rubene dos Santos I came to do this assignment with a veiled reluctance, not of dread but a sort of absent-mindedness. Considering the topic, this is understandable; matters of death and the process of dying tend to deter people from thinking about it too much. Often we hope to be taken from this world swiftly and, if not long in the tooth, at the very least without senseless torment. An ideal scenario would…

This poem, written by Emily Dickinson, is a good way for individuals to get a sense of how their loved one felt just moments before their passing. Emily writes the poem as if it were being written by the person who was dying. In the first stanza, Dickinson gives an overview of the whole process of dying. However, in the later stanzas she gives full details so that the reader can relate it back to this first stanza. In line 2 and 3 she writes, “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness…

that I chose were the ones that included higher stakes, less summary, and more precise, unique arguments than those that I didn’t choose. In my essay on Emily Dickinson’s “The Brain—is wider than the Sky—” I argued that Dickinson sees the human mind as so powerful that it dwarfs God’s abilities and intellect by comparison. I also noted that Dickinson comes near to making an atheist argument at certain points, implying that God may have been created inside the human mind, since the brain can…