Emily McLaughlin

Emily’s View of the Soul The afterlife is a mystery to all mankind, and everyone has their own theory as to what surmises after we die. Emily Dickson provides two different theories in her poems “If I Should Die” and “Because I Couldn’t Stop For Death.” In the first, she alludes to the sense that death is the extinction of a soul, but in the latter she sees the soul living on for eternity after the bodies physical death. “If I Should Die” is a poem that eliminates the harshness of death but…

“I heard a fly buzz when I died”, by Emily Dickinson, is a poem that describes what a woman is hearing and seeing as she dies. Emily Dickinson uses imagery, similes, and metaphors to convey her theme; death is mysterious and no one knows for sure what happens in the afterlife. In the first stanza the speaker uses imagery when she states “I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness in the air” (lines 1-2). The speaker creates an image of a woman dying. The room she is dying in is so quiet that…

Something striking about Emily Dickinson’s poetry is the makeshift way it all seems to come together. It’s written on any type of paper—whether envelope or wrinkled, torn corner—in an endless chain of thought, as if her entire body of work was sticky-noted. And so this allows for reproduction upon reproduction. Because of its jotted down nature, Dickinson’s collection of poetry lends itself to a continuous but broken style, which is built around her punctuation and self-revision. To bring this…

Indirect Guidance Emily Dickinson is a very unique and distinct writer. She has a way of indirectly sending the reader a message. In her poems “Before I got my eye put out” and “We grow accustomed to the dark” she conveys a message in her poems that is not clear cut. You as a reader must analyze her poems and find the message that she is trying to get her readers to see. In this analytical essay I will be breaking down both “Before I got my eye put out” and “We grow accustomed to the dark”. I…

Harold Bloom, a Yale literary critic, states “ Dickinson [...] has a mind so original and powerful that we scarcely have begun, even now, to catch up with her”. Poet Emily Dickinson is one of the two pioneers for American poetry, along with Walt Whitman. Although both are prolific writers, the two were radically different; as Whitman toured New England promoting his work, Dickinson barricaded herself in her house. Dickinson’s use of various poetic techniques perfectly illustrates her agonizing…

However, when the bird enters in the second stanza, the poem then becomes more joyful. The thrush which is a kind of bird, begins to sing and “had chosen thus to fling his soul / Upon the growing gloom” (23-24). The bird makes the speaker realize can always improve. Even though the thrush is “frail, gaunt, and small,” (21) it is able to bring a great amount happiness into ones life. This shows how one does not necessarily need to be physically strong in order to help others and that some of the…

In “The Last Night that She Lived,” Emily Dickinson takes an in-depth look into what life and death mean to her, along with delving into what the reader might see in life and death. Throughout the poem Emily Dickinson describes the emotions of the visitors as they wait and watch for a loved one to pass on. In examining death and the human response, Emily Dickinson 's poem is centered on how the people in the poem experience a change in how they view death. In the beginning of the poem the…

poetry, but Emily Dickinson is one of the names that sticks out the most. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a poet who was well noted on her style and her vast amounts of written poems these poems were even written on scraps of paper. For the most part Emily Dickinson was a woman that people would see alone for the majority of the time, she quite often stayed to herself and only a few people would go visit to come talk to her. Emily…

“Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, displays poetic excellence because, it is not didactic, it contains no sentiment, and uses figurative language excellently. The theme of the poem is, when people die, they go into a new life of eternity and have a new beginning. The poem is about a woman who nears death and sees death as something pleasant because her life has become sorrow, which is symbolized with the broken down house. Death is personified as a gentleman caller to show…

Emily Dickinson is well known for her unusual poems, however during her life she wasn’t famous till after she passed away when her family started to find 1000’s of her poems stuff in tiny spaces all around the house. Dickinson’s writing wasn’t well understood during her time, she had a uniqueness that was ahead of her time; she had an amazing use of symbols, capitalism, themes and tones in her writing which make reading her poems so intriguing. While growing up she wasn’t the average women, she…