Emily McLaughlin

reason being is because they are different but alike as well. “The noiseless patient spider” is written by Walt Whitman. This poem is about a spider who cannot find a home, and allows the wind to find the perfect location. The second poem, written by Emily Dickinson, discusses a soul watching over an empire to see if she admires what she observes, if so, she will “shut the door”, or in other words get a host and live in that empire. There are many ways to compare the two poems, but this essay…

Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Literary Analysis Death. When most people hear that they do not ever associate it with sun sets and seeing children in the playground. Death is usually personified, by many poets, as a Grim Reaper who cuts away peoples lives, like a reaper who cuts his crops to harvest. Death has even been portrayed as a smooth gentleman about to inflict pain in the person. Thus, most people are afraid of Death, but not Emily Dickinson (“Because”). She…

As someone with a rather intimate and longstanding connection to death, it is no surprise that Emily Dickinson often used poetry as a medium to explore her ever-developing relationship with mortality. Her literary investigation of as much is incredibly diverse in content, her poems often highlighting her attempts to cope with the death of loved ones, or perhaps portraying her endeavors to deepen her understanding of herself and the world around her. Wrought with complexity, Dickinson's poetry on…

Emily Dickinson is a poet that tends to break all the rules of what society has formed about poetry and how it should be. This can make it challenging to read, but after careful analysis a reader can take the lines and make some sensible connections. Being the rebel that she is makes her poetry captivating to read despite its complexity because much of it could be interpreted in many different ways. Dickinson dives into a couple themes multiple times in her poetry death, destiny, and doubt.…

“Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant” by Emily Dickinson explores the ideas of communicating the truth, but doing so in an indirect manner. The speaker tells the audience to tell all of the truth, but tell it with a gentle bias. “Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant” indicates that we, as humans, can only handle some of the all powerful Truth. From a young age, most children are told that they must always tell the truth. If a young boy is asked whether or not he broke his mother’s vase, he feels…

In the world, there is a myriad of views on death. Some suggest that death is natural, and people should not fear it. In “Thanatopsis” and “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”, Bryant and Longfellow imply that people should not fear death; the normalcy of death, what happens to one after death, and what happens to others after you die supports this idea. Bryant and Longfellow, both express that because of how common death is, people should not fear it. Longfellow describes how “The little waves,…

In the first stanza, Dickinson uses word choice, and metaphor to explain that the bird represents hope and hope is prevalent within us. Dickinson uses a literal and standard definition of hope. Initially, she general categorizes it by saying it “is the thing” and then differentiates it. By doing so, Dickinson is classify hope as a bird. In other words, if Dickinson had called hope a spiritual idea or human ambition, the metaphor would have lost meaning. Instead, by using the word “thing”, the…

Wuthering Heights: Revenge Takes All Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was published in 1847 in an isolated village in Yorkshire. The novel is also set in England 1847 on two farms Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. The book possesses the same style as many other great novels such as “once concrete and yet general, local and yet universal” (Kettle 28). Bronte approaches her novels in a different way such as symbols and not in her ideas. Bronte does not color-code her words in this novel…

Emily Dickinson's poem “Because I could not stop for Death” calls attention to how people rush through life without taking the time to stop and enjoy life while they can. Dickinson employs a plethora of poetic devices including personification, dashes, and capitalization. Dickinson personifies Death is not a destination so much as it is a companion in a stage of life; The dashes she uses in the poem to show reader the joy of taking one’s time and through that we see why it’s important to take…

Preliminary Thesis: Emily Dickinson’s powerful and influential poetry was caused by her experience with death, her religious upbringing, and her choice of physical isolation. Emily Dickinson wrote over 1100 poems during her period of isolation from 1858 to 1865, all of dealing with themes like sorrow, nature, and love. She bound about 800 of these pieces in fascicles, or self-crafted books, which she rarely showed anyone except family members and certain well-respected friends (Amherst College)…