Emily Dickinson Museum

Titanic In english class, we were given the poem “Titanic”. The poem was written by David R. Slavitt. Slavitt had a tough life as a kid. His mother was murdered by a teenaged robber. His experience with his deceased mother probably made him write about dark stories and poems. The poem is about how people would want to go on the Titanic and go through the same death that the people on the Titanic went through. By dying with a lot of people rather than dying alone, which is what most people do. I…

them? Many people wonder what happens after they die and hope to find peace with death. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “If I Should Die,” expresses how she feels about the world’s life after death. The poem depicts death as being peaceful and the world as disregardful. Dickinson uses various poetic devices including vivid imagery, alliteration, and repetition to emphasize her thoughts and feelings about dying. Dickinson began suffering from depression, anxiety, and agoraphobia at a very young age…

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem “ Spirits of the Dead.” The reason that it is important is if one person dies, his or her spirit will come out of the body. Although, it can help by reading what the poem means, and what it stands for. This paper is being written by Edgar A. Poe. He wrote this before his death, and wanted to show with no emotion. The people will affect a reader by emotions, but in the “ Spirits of the Dead” poem , it is unenjoyable, depressed, and devastating feeling. Why everyone…

Emily Dickinson’s poems, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “There’s a certain slant of light”, and “I felt a funeral in my brain” convey a sense of poignancy which reflects the feelings of isolation of the people in America during the Civil War. Dickinson exploits nature as a metaphor to make an abstract idea more “real”, characterizing the images and feelings during the Civil War Era. She uses elaborate and fanciful metaphors to illustrate a depressing mood, characterizing the speaker’s…

In the poem “Elliptical” author Harryette Mullen used many poem elements to develop her unique writing. Some of Mullen’s techniques were a shift and an important type of connotation. These were used to develop not only her point of view but the message she wanted to give the readers. The theme ,or message, Mullen portrayed in this poem can be separation or prejudice. Although the title does not directly refer to this, it does connect to how the author justifies her message. Mullen also uses…

Dickinson and Her Obsession with Death Throughout much of her life Emily Dickinson showed signs of anxiety and obsession. This charming timid young woman retreated to her room and often never left, spending her days locked away writing poetry. When she died she left many works about many different things, but just one look at Emily Dickinson's poems reveals that death is her principal subject, this young spinster had an obsession with it. Other nineteenth-century poets, such as Whitman and…

William Faulkner’s symbolic use of death in A Rose for Emily conveys how the past is representative of death. Throughout the story death is a prevalent theme consequently, Faulkner uses many symbols to carry his message. The symbolic use of death as a theme depicts the struggles and resistance of change, illustrating how conformity may result in an early death even while still living. The resistance towards change signifies the limbo between the past and present much like life and death. The use…

Have you ever grown accustomed to the dark, Not literally but physically? Or have you ever gotten your eye put out not physically but literally? Well in We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson the writer is talking about growing accustomed to the dark and In Before I Got My Eyes Put Out the writer is talking about losing her vision. In We Grow Accustomed To The Dark the writer says how you can find light or how light will come . everyone in life has been through a dark time…

Light is often associated with truth, shining through the darkness, breaking through the lies to show the facts behind it. Light will illuminate what is really there, ridding you of the uncertainty and doubt that the darkness gives you. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “There’s a certain slant of light”, light is thought of as just that. In this poem, light comes in through windows, exposing the truth that cannot be seen when the window is closed. The light pushes away the darkness, causing the…

The speaker's initial feelings towards poetry was distasteful. Mrs. Moore, starts off her poem with "I, too, dislike it" (Line 1) after this reading this section of the poem, you may assume she dislikes poetry, but, if you continue to read the rest of the quotation she carries on to say "there are things that are important beyond this fiddle". (Line 1). It's clear to see her first reaction to poetry has changed from disliking to all poetry, to her understanding the true meaning behind the poetry…