Emily Dickinson

Differing Interpretations of Death Across Literary Works Throughout the history of literature, death has been a constant presence. No matter what the era, humankind is united through death as an inevitable facet of life. Despite this uniting force, the attitudes about death have changed greatly. Many works have put forward that upon death, the soul or another aspect of the person lives on, while others have stated that death is truly the end and that through the works of the deceased is how…

While both Woolf and Petrunkevitch both focus on an insect, Woolf explains that death is an inevitable part to life and also shows how beautiful the struggle for life is by the dynamic point of view and artistic tone she used. Woolf’s view on the moth changes from hopeful and energetic to insignificant and helplessness by the essays end. Woolf starts her essay by describing the energy outside her window as “pleasant morning… earth gleamed with moisture.” Woolf then transfers the energy of the…

After reading “Musee des Beaux Arts” poem and viewing the “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” painting, it is evident that there’s a common theme demonstrated and developed between these two sources, which is that suffering and death can be overlooked and affect people in various ways. The author creates and develops this common theme by creating a tone in each selection and by placing common ideas and topics in both pieces that aid in creating the common theme. Some of the common ideas and…

The feast of the dead, these people literally carried their dead loved one on their back to a ossuary grave. They would chat a particular cry “hai hai,” hai meaning ‘hail,’ but also has a strong message of journey, “especially a journey of souls, and may relate to a root word meaning ‘to take up a path’.” The Huron’s believed that it was the cry of souls emitted from themselves as they took the remains from the burial platforms to the ossuaries. If they did not do this chant during the march…

. “I threw us into the flames, when it fell something died and I knew that that was the last time.” These lyrics show that even though she had the power in her hands at last, she still lost the battle, she threw herself into an emotional suicide which is exactly what death was trying to do to the young girl, make her commit suicide. HISTORYYYYYYY Schubert was very ill in 1823 (suspected tertiary syphilis) and his career down the drain, after failing miserably in his opera Fierabras and with…

In this paper, I will discuss the orthodox definition of hope expressed in Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope: A Moral Psychology, and emphasize the inherent problems raised by Martin that challenge this definition. Martin derives the ‘orthodox definition’ of hope from the works of Day and Downie introduced in the late 1960s. Day states that “hope involves (1) desiring and (2) estimating a probability” and names these two constituents of hope as the desiderative and the estimative constituents,…

Poem “1129” encapsulates the brilliance of the truth that Dickinson talks about. The poem is rife with imagery proclaiming truth’s similarity to light stating, “Too bright for our infirm Delight / The Truth’s superb surprise,” (Citation). These lines evoke the image of bright light exploding in front of our eyelids that at first we cannot comprehend. However, these lines also contain a judgment on us by saying that the truth is too bright for our short attentions. To this end the poem continues…

The topic of suicide is, and always has been, a grim subject to discuss or write about; however, this did not stop Gwendolyn Brooks from writing a poem about suicide titled, “To the Young Who Want to Die.” In this poem, the speaker of this poem seems to be Gwendolyn Brooks but is not specified. This method of writing is useful because of the way the poem is formatted, combined with the words used in the poem, lets the reader see that the speaker is talking directly to them, or to anyone who…

she is having a breakdown because she feels likes she is torn between two different ways of being. The similes of sewing create an exaggerated idea of what woman do, demonstrating that the speaker cannot identify with these norms. Runzo claims, “Dickinson and her poems appear contained within the parameters of heterosexist ideology, although she offers us every sign that she locates herself outside of it” (Runzo 9). Breaking out of the performance of the traditional woman creates judgment from…

Many poems are similar to one another but also different, sometimes sharing similar themes and ideas. “Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily…