Emily Dickinson Museum

Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lover Within Emily Dickinson’s writing she portrays a forceful emotional experience with desire and agony over separation and lack of response from and rejection of love by a speculated secret lover whom we may never know. With poems, research, allegations, and claims from researchers who studied her writing, we can put the pieces of the puzzle together and help determine the role of a secret lover. After reading claims from an article called “Beyond the Master Letters,”…

This poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson revolves around a satirical and ironic dramatization of the conflict that there be between life and eternity of death. The statement “Because I could not stop for Death-/He kindly stopped for me-" (line 1 & 2, stanza 1) pictures Emily as busy and not ready for death. The poet sets an ironical tone for the poem. The poem is a reflection of the concept of mortality of mankind that removes the fear of death and makes it acceptable as…

Emily Dickinson lived a life of extreme isolation and privacy; she left only her poems behind as a clue to understanding her incredibly advanced mind. While Dickinson was afraid to share her beliefs in public, her writings become an outlet for expression and enabled Emily to piece together her complex thoughts. Feminism was not a popular ideology during Dickinson’s nineteenth century life, with the first “wave” of feminism being in the early 1900s. However, an analysis of her poetry points to…

death no matter how rich or powerful they may be. Prince Prospero locks his palace with the remaining healthy knights and dames of his court inside, ignoring the “Red Death” ravaging the land. The theme in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is also the inevitability of death. The difference is that the speaker embraces death rather than fears it. In this poem, death is described as a gentleman suitor who takes the speaker on a journey with immortality. Being written in the…

In her poem #465, Emily Dickinson’s speaker allow the reader to experience an ironic reversal of conventional expectations of the moment of death in the mid-1800s, as the speaker finds nothing but an eerie darkness at the end of her life. Dickinson introduces the speaker’s earliest memory as the speaker is starting the journey of crossing over, however, the speaker’s expectations are not met, “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-“(1). The reader is introduced to a fly buzzing around the room,…

1 7. Select at least three poems by Dickinson of related significance and make an argument for your selection based upon a close reading of each poem. Ignorance is a prevalent theme in the assorted poems of Emily Dickinson. I have selected the poems 305, 449 and 1129 as they depict various manifestations of ignorance and also display a keen sense of irony, which perfectly accentuates the vicious condemnation of all that is (and isn’t). Poem 305 has an intriguing concept of time. It is divided…

Famous American poet Emily Dickinson was perhaps best known for living a life of introversion. Dickinson was born into a wealthy and intellectually prominent family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived out the majority of her life in her family home with her sister, Lavinia. As is true of many writers, Dickinson is thought to have drawn from personal experience when composing her poems. Emily Dickinson’s life left a distinguishable impression on her writing, which is easy to acknowledge in one…

comprehension stretch. Emily Dickinson contemplates this in quite a few of her poems. She views human understanding as an infinite and miraculous opportunity; yet it is also so infantile and Immature. In her poems “The Brain is Wider Than The Sky” and “Water is Taught by Thirst” Dickinson ponders the full spectrum of human understanding. In Dickinson’s distinguished poem “Water is taught by thirst” she conveys just how little we comprehend and have limited potential to learn. Dickinson…

In Emily Dickinson’s eyes home is the afterlife. Every human being eventually has a date with death. As humans, we do not look forward to dying. However death does not negotiate with humans it comes to take us home when our time on earth has come to an end. Emily says because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me. Death comes for Emily in the form of a man who takes her on a horse and carriage ride. As Emily is riding with death they passed a school, where Children played during…

The overall meaning of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” revolves around the idea of death and how it is inevitable for everyone, but it may not be as awful as one would think. In her poem, she describes a woman’s journey to the afterlife, using both an eccentric tone and a first-person point of view, beginning with “Because I could not stop for Death” (1). Her purpose for writing this is to convince her audience that people should live everyday like it is their last…