Emily McLaughlin

they look at the time they lived in and how it influenced their style of writing. Emily Dickinson is a poet who wasn’t discovered during her lifetime but has some of the most amazing work. Her writings seems to possess possible connections to her life as well as give the readers beautiful images. Although her work wasn’t discovered until after her life she was still an amazing poet who knew how to use language. Emily Dickinson was never in the lime light for her writing, instead she had a rather…

education. I became personally familiar with how life can sometimes seem to deal you a hand that is a bit too much. When I was in the middle, Emily Dickinson’s poem resonated with me: my thoughts disconnected and raveling just out of reach from myself, eluding my ability to put them together to make sense of my experience. However, what solace I did not find in Emily Dickinson’s poem, I found in medicine. I learned that you are able to come through tough times and develop a hope and resilience…

Throughout history, poetry has been used by many to teach lessons and express the feelings of humanity. During the nineteenth century, authors began to write in a fashion known as Realism, which closely mimics the basis of real life, though more often focuses on acknowledging the negative aspects of humanity. The goal of writing in this style was to promote social reforms and change the mindset of mankind. Death was not an uncommon subject for the realist movement, and many renowned poets from…

Every induvial is born with a finite life span, that of which is unknown. The concept of eternal rest is one that hinders minds, holding different interpretations. Death, the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to existence, is a facet of life that every individual becomes acquainted with. Writers have used this notion of death as the basis for many literary works. Holding a negative denotation, literary writers have created a new image for the face of death, giving it human…

is not madness it is not love.”(Pedro Calderón de la Barca). Emily Dickinson is considered to be a very influential poet of the twenty first century, though Dickinson’s work was not recognized in her lifetime.That said Dickinson poetry projects many different symbolic meaning onto the reader which are not clearly comprehended, her poetry in my opinion seems to have characteristics of religious believes and a mad obsession with death. Emily Dickinson is arguably the most famous American poet of…

Faulkner’s twisted short story “A Rose for Emily” is still being discussed eighty-five years later. Having been made into a major motion picture in 1982, the cryptic story’s legend lives on into a new age of discussion. Miss Emily Grierson made a name for herself in the small southern town, and both forms of media convey the deep twists of her life in one way or another. The movie and book contain similarities like the odor problem and the townspeople’s views on Emily, as well as differences in…

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Sky is low--the Clouds are mean” is a lyrical poem that depicts nature through a non-traditional perspective. While nature in poetry is often portrayed as being beautiful, peaceful, and essentially flawless, in this poem Dickinson intends for the audience to view nature from a different perspective. The entirety of the poem follows with a sad, dull tone while describing nature on a cold, windy, and cloudy day. Dickinson is careful to emulate aspects of a cloudy day…

Death can be a hard pill to swallow, but it is part of our natural life cycle. At some point in our lives we will ponder our own inevitable death. Someone who embraces death believes it is simply another period in their lives. Emily Dickinson welcomes death in her poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, like a suitor calling on her for an outing. Dickinson visualizes death as a customary carriage ride. On the other hand, many individuals are not willing to let go and believe they must stick…

In much the same way that Catherine and Heathcliff yearn for freedom in her novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s poetry articulates a similar desire to be free of societal expectations that restrict her because of her gender. In her poem, “I’m happiest when most away” (Bronte 1838) she writes about how her soul is released ‘from its home of clay’ (2)…

Language, Imagery, and Diction in Emily Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death, A narrow Fellow in the Grass, and I felt a Funeral in my Brain All good poets use the basic literary techniques of figurative language, imagery, and diction in their poems. However, only great poets use these techniques to transmit an experience to the reader; Emily Dickinson was one these poets. She used these techniques to bring the reader a new perception of life, and to widen and sharpen the…