Emily Dickinson

Well used imagery can be as vivid as a one million paintings. Kate Chopin uses imagery throughout many of her timeless short stories. Kate Chopin was a short story author based out of Louisiana. Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, MO and later died on August 22, 1904. Throughout her life Chopin was a very well-known women’s rights activist. Kate Chopin was also very against the abuse and enslavement of African Americans. Chopin uses amazing imagery throughout the short story…

Bishop describes “Four Poems” as “fragmentary,” but considers “that together they made a sort of emotional sequence” (Giroux, 308). Though there is no narrative, at least not one consciously thought up by Bishop, the emotions of the poem easily convey important faucets of her life like sexuality and love. Often, this poem is discussed as Bishop viewed it with fragmented looks at each aspect of the poem rather than the poem itself. While it is useful to do this, since poems are often broken down…

Also in “The Death of a Moth,” Dillard not only continues to use the symbolism of candles throughout the narrative, she also mentions the number of candles or wicks numerically throughout her writing. When on the mountains, Dillard first only refers to “the candle” (7) when the moth begins burning from its flame. Later on, the author writes that the candle the moth continues to fuel “had two wicks, two flames of identical light, side by side” (8). At the very end, Dillard writes “I have three…

Marvell, on the other hand, uses metaphors in his poem to create a rather different effect. He mentions that his mistress’ beauty cannot be found “in [her] marble vault”. (26) The marble fault is a metaphor for his mistress’ final resting place, her cemetery. He then proceeds to compare their bodies of making love to each other as “roll our strength into one ball” (42, 43) as well as the finite time of our days on earth as the “iron gates of life” (44). Unlike Shakespeare, the effect created by…

This was some what hard for me to find a poem that is interesting to me, because I enjoy poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickerson, and Robert Frost. Sometimes I even like poems by Edgar Allen Poe. However, my all time favorite writer is Maya Angelou. Out of all her poems I would have to say that I love “Phenomenal Woman” more. “Phenomenal Woman” is a poem that expresses and honors the achievement of women in life. It also tells women no matter what your size may be you are beautiful inside and…

In the beginning of Paula Kopacz article, she addresses concern about whether Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “The Four Monarchies,” is finished or not. Kopacz explains how Bradstreet is “restless” to finish the poem, and that “the circumstances made finishing impossible” (175). Although many people have supported that this poem was not finished, Kopacz argues that the poem was finished after Bradstreet successfully reached New England. Critics do not recognize the finished poem because it was not…

In Julia Alvarez “Sometimes the Words Are so Close” in the introduction of the poem she is presenting herself as the person who the poem is mentioning. She is in a situation in her point of life where she has difficulties in expressing her inner self with the modern society. She has embodied poetry for herself expression of the person who she wishes she could be. Through the help and love for poetry she has been able to show the reader more of her inner persona. In “practicing for the real me I…

Death is prevalent across a large variety of literary works throughout history. Since the dawn of time, death is something that we are afraid of; a dark entity that hangs over every person in their lifetime. Naturally, many authors will make their stories around, about, and featuring motifs of death; due to the large part that death plays in our lives. Death played a large part in the works that we have studied, particularly Jane Eyre, “We Are Seven”, and “Simon Lee, the old huntsman.” Firstly,…

It is well known that death is inevitable and unescapable to all forms of life. In Virginia Woolf’s, “The Death of the Moth ,” Woolf utilizes metaphors, powerful imagery, and tonal shifts to explain the struggle between life and death as a battle, that in the end, is never won. The uses of these rhetorical devices depict the intense power that death has over life. The tonal shifts throughout the piece strengthen the idea of an all powerful death. Woolf’s final words, “death is stronger than I…

When it comes to living life, there is often that though inside one’s mind about the end of life, about death. It is a common topic that reflects upon the humanity of oneself and those around. Life and death are a topic that is versatile to authors of diverse genres. Virginia Woolf is one of those authors who was drawn to this continuum. Woolf’s childhood was filled with death, born in 1882, her mother passed in 1895, her half-sister died in 1897, her father followed in 1890, and her brother in…