Emily Dickinson

Melissa Zbichorski B2 Lit Paper 1.4 Poet theodore Roethke is probably one of poet that are very well- known, Oe of the poem that he's especially known for is Elegy For Jane. He uses lots of natural imagery through this whole piece . Mr. Roethke uses all this imagery of nature to express himself throughout the poem even though this poem is about Jane. Furthermore the reason why Theodore used a lot of natures in his poem was because the way he grew up . When he was growing up his father…

Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help…

many poems indulging in the thoughts revolving around their soul and its journey. While in the other hand a group of poets took a pantheist view towards the abrupt ending of our lives, projecting that once we die we return to that we came from. Dickinson wrote of the experience of death during life and other poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson and Walt Whitman wrote about the…

Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. She was the eighth born of nine children, although only she, two sisters, and a brother survived to adulthood. Her father, John Huy Addams, was a businessman and a local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War. Jane’s mother, Sarah Weber Addams, died when she was two years old, so she did not have much contact with her. Jane Addams, known most importantly…

Tracy K. Smith is a poet, and she is the 22nd poet laureate of the United States. Carla Hayden appointed Smith a second term as poet laureate. Smith does not like how America has divided into two regions: urban and rural. Although she is from the urban region, she wants to discover solutions for the rural region. When Smith was in South Carolina, she met different people that were apart of segregation. Furthermore, she felt overwhelmed by two poems during her time visiting rural areas. The first…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two poems. The two poems that I chose are Death be not proud(#72) by John Donne and The Soul's Dark Cottage by Edmund Waller. These are two poems about death, but are both explained and told in a different way. The one is explained through a cottage and the other explains death as a person, saying that it has no power. They might have the same topic, but that does not mean that it has to be expressed the same. As an example DBNP is a poem where…

particularly poetry, began to encaptivate the sublime within nature and poets were drawn to vivid and imaginative descriptions of the natural world. Following this period of innovation, Emily Dickinson arose and through a distinctive meter and form, took continued to integrate ideas of nature into poetry. Dickinson took a more realist approach and wrote with a unique individuality which while unpopular at the time, now stands as some of America’s most celebrated poetry. Mary Oliver, a renowned…

The Emily Dickinson Homestead” written by Diana Fuss, the main ‘theme’ to critically engage with would be the relationship between textual and historical evidence. Fuss uses documents including (standard) quotations (these include quotes from Dickinson’s family, and friends), photographs, poems, and letters by Dickinson herself. Though it is important to note that both context and the interpretation(s) made in the article should be considered/ examined as because “we” are not Emily Dickinson the…

Hamlet’s monolog is one governed by rationality. It is a meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no…

The World’s Wife is based on intertextual webs and most of the poems take the form of a dramatic monologue. Duffy chooses to play the intertextual game in order to convey a certain message, to voice her ideas through historical, religious and mythical figures. She focuses on the marginalized, women in particular. Her trademark dramatic monologue is successfully employed in The World’s Wife (1999) in which, drawing on Greek mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, literature, history, and film,…