Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson's poetry probes the subjects that intrigue her, such as: life, death, and love. Dickinson focuses on similar themes in her poems but uses them in various ways. In My life closed twice before its close and I heard a Fly buzz when I died, Dickinson's viewpoints on waiting, uncertainty, and death, alternates between poems. Dickinson combines these themes in various ways that differentiate the readers understandings of her positions in these poems. In Emily Dickinson's poems My life…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson had significantly different reasons of why they wanted to belong; yet they both shared a burning passion to fit in with their societies. Whitman simply wanted to fit into his society. When he came to recognition that he could not do so he then accepted his differences and embraced them. Similar to Whitman, Dickinson also longed to fit in with the world around her. Though in contrast to Whitman, Dickinson found herself to become spiteful and isolated…

Because I could not stop for Death is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. She did not give title her poems therefore at first numbers were given to them in the 20th century. The primary themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry were love and death. In this essay, I am going to explain the importance of this poem and the personification of Death. First of all, Emily Dickinson initiates her poem with a cosmic opening. She personified Death in the form of a polite, kind gentleman consequently she cannot…

Human Nature vs Nature Billy Collins and Emily Dickinson are both known for their amazing talents in poetry and have left their legacies for the years to come. Emily Dickinson’s poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” was published in February of 1866 and is still critically talked about to this day. Billy Collins poem “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” was published in January of 2000. Collin’s poem was published a little over a century later, which is an example of Dickinson’s very distinct…

wrong? Emily Dickinson, the author of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, challenges the average thought behind the presence of death which is shown through her poem. Dickinson’s mysterious writing method, often called upon as perplexing, is formed through her secluded lifestyle, fascination with death, and her drive to find a new outlook that is not popular in the eyes of society. From an overview, Dickinson had a fairly normal life living in New England with her family. Emily Dickinson was…

This quote from an anonymous source forms the basis of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Success is Counted Sweetest”. Dickinson, who, along with Walt Whitman, formed the basis of American poetry, describes success in this poem from the standpoint of one who has not experienced it. This is quite accurate as Dickinson never truly became famous during her lifetime. Dickinson gives a point of view of success that most people do not see. Emily Dickinson uses metaphor, irony, and imagery to portray her view…

Many people have different outlets to express themselves. Emily Dickinson chose to express herself through her writing. Even though her she was not a famous poem in her living days her work did inspire many in the future. Emily Dickinson writes about things that are popular in anyone’s life such as love and death. In the poem “I could not stop for death” Emily Dickinson personifies death in order to reflect on her life before her passing. Many people including myself can relate to her themes…

"A Timeline of Emily Dickinson's Life." Emily Dickinson Museum. Trustees of Amhurst College, 2009. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. The Timeline crafted by the Trustees of Amhurst College starts in 1810, well before the birth of Emily Dickinson. The timeline itself, although it is about Dickinson, includes events that happened before her time and that she didn’t participate in, but probably impacted society and her life. An example is the Civil War. Both births and deaths within her family and close…

Example In the poem “‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers” Emily Dickinson doesn’t use many different literary devices but uses one in particular a lot. The author uses metaphors most throughout the poem. The first example of this is the title. The title uses a metaphor to call a “thing with feathers,” a bird, hope. It doesn’t say outright that it is a bird but it can be implied because it is a thing with feathers. Even though unrelated, Dickinson uses birds and hope and compares the two in the…

over the edge. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson, death is the central idea for both works. In Poe’s story, the narrator goes down the path of insanity over the eye of an old man and would plan the latter’s murder. In Dickinson’s poem, she uses death to portray the deterioration of her sanity. Poe and Dickinson both use the concept of hearing voices and death along with repetitive words and phrases to further develop…