Emily McLaughlin

Whitman and Dickinson are two extraordinary poets of their time. Main because they different follow the trend of other poets. They went about their own unique writing style when writing their poems and short story. Whitman writing consisted of mainly what was growth and deaf. Dickinson was an aphoristically poet that dealt with a very small words to get her point across. Whitman and Dickinson was both born in the nineteenth century, Whitman was born in 1819 and Dickinson in 1830. Whitman was…

renowned American poets, Emily Dickinson had fewer than twenty poems published in her lifetime. Fame and fortune occupied such a minute spot in her body that all the New England woman held onto was a dream. Her unusual script, forms of punctuation and abnormal phrases provided her a writing style that distinguished her from others (Arvin 232). Undeterred from societies opinions, Dickinson held onto her individuality and continued to make strides in writing. By examining three of Emily…

sweet.” This quote from an anonymous source forms the basis of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Success is Counted Sweetest”. Dickinson, who, along with Walt Whitman, formed the basis of American poetry, describes success in this poem from the standpoint of one who has not experienced it. This is quite accurate as Dickinson never truly became famous during her lifetime. Dickinson gives a point of view of success that most people do not see. Emily Dickinson uses metaphor, irony, and imagery to portray…

death, the common word ‘eternity’ might come to mind. One is thought of as an eternal bonding, and the other is viewed as an unending state of rest. Through the symbolism, personification, and imagery used in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson portrays the speaker’s death by illustrating an eternal marriage. The first quatrain starts with the speaker recalling the time that she is visited by Death. She then elopes with Death and his associate, Immortality, but she doesn’t…

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…

changed your life? What kind of hope do you believe in? Many use the expression “Hope is for suckers” but having hope can change the way people look at the world around them. It can open new doors and shine a light on the dark days. While Katy Perry and Emily Dickinson show this in their poems Firework and “Hope” is the thing with feathers which both share the common theme of hope, Dickinson uses the theme of losing oneself and using hope to find oneself again, whereas Perry puts off a, people…

William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is about Jefferson, Mississippi during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on the life of Emily Grierson and the conflict Emily has with her father, the townspeople, and Homer Barron. In this story, Faulkner explains the emergence of the industrialized South and how the old agrarian South resists transition to the more modern, industrialized world. A Rose for Emily is narrated by the townspeople who look back on the life and death of Emily Grierson and the…

The poem “Dare you see a soul at the white heat?” by Emily Dickinson is a poem that explains how that those who are resilient and strong show certain traits during difficult times. The first stanza explains that there are different kinds of “ores”, and some of these ores burn a normal red flame when put into the blacksmith’s forge. However, some of these special ores create a certain, special light. The second stanza explains that these special ores have qualities that pleases the flame, which…