Emily McLaughlin

Emily Dickinson was a poet from the 1850s. Many people tried to urge Dickinson to publish, but she then had to start worrying about her punctuation in her works. Her works held great power and they reached maturity quite quickly. Emily Dickinson made many great works that many poets reference still today. Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 and Lavinia, her sister, later discovered her sisters poems ("Dickinson, Emily"). Emily’s poems carry…

symbol is presented. The metaphor that first stanza is crucial in that the speaker now believes herself to be a lethal weapon. Dickinson is not like a loaded gun but the actual gun itself. In an excerpt from Rich’s book Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson the split between being an object and an active, willing human person is made evident. The struggle between the two conflicting ideas of femininity and masculinity are mirrored by the split. The gun presents the speaker as the…

An image alone has the ability to be worth a thousand words, but paired together with poetry, it expresses much more. Emily Dickinson, an American poet, created true works of art that often had ambiguous meaning. Dickinson’s poetry continuously constructed dominant images that, needless to say, didn’t need illustrations. Emily Dickinson’s Civil War poems specifically, contain descriptions of graphic images that also fit well with the photo taken by American Photographer, Timothy H. O’Sullivan.…

Dracula and Wuthering Heights: Did They Conform? Both the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Dracula by Bram Stoker conform to the societal norms of their time but not in a direct way. The characters in Wuthering Heights like Catherine for example, do make decisions like marrying Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff which is a reasonable decision as she wants to keep her status and be rich. The characters in Dracula, especially the females, conform to society as they do not meddle in…

Jane Eyre was published in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. The same year, Wuthering Heights was published by Emily Bronte (of course, under their respective pseudonyms- Currer and Ellis Bell). It seems there were more things in common with these books than just the sisters who wrote them. The characters and themes are shared between the two classics. Gothic elements, like the presence of ‘something more’. The supernatural. But, where Wuthering Heights contained explicit proof of the supernatural with…

Emily Dickinson, a famously known American poet, was someone who seemed fascinated when it came to the matter of death. Dickinson was so engulfed over the thought and perspective of death, that the poems and letters she left behind even included poems over her own death. Her engrossment with such a theme gives her poems a unique twist of a taste, and provides the audience insight to the author’s mind after not being left with much of the author themselves. Her obsession of death is portrayed…

In many of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, disruptions of conventional literary standards frequently occur. While this includes different aspects of poetry, such as theme, perspective, diction, and other poetic devices, her experimental syntactic constructions are particularly notable. One of Dickinson’s poems, “A Day,” provides an example of her prolific usage of punctuations and syntax, and this contributes to successfully conveying the theme of the poem. The poetry portrays a vivid, detailed…

The title at 39 is very significant and could be interpreted as the age she wrote this poem or at what age her father died. She explains the situation her father is in at that point in time which is very important to her, this poem is written in free verse and short lines. The poem is not very structured so it seems like she is thinking about this rather than writing it, flowing from one thought to another and finally coming to a conclusion. By repeating the phrase ‘’How I miss my father’’(1)…

writers look at these vast topics and they individualize them. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered two of the most American prominent poets, their personally styles are totally different and similar in comparative ways. Walt Whitman in “I Sing the Body Electric” examines the beauty of the human body and decribes its importance in connecting with the soul. However, the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, by Emily Dickinson, is an abstract statement on the relationship between the…

I have selected two poems. First poem is “Reality” and other poem is “Die before you die”. These poems are written by Rabia Al Basri. First I will talk about the poem “Reality”. Rabia al-Basri lived in the eighth century in Basra, Iraq, and is generally thought to be the first female Sufi saint. There are numerous fascinating myths surrounding her life, however there doesn't appear to be any definitive story for her. What does appear to be certain is that she never married, and that she instead…