Emily McLaughlin

Also in “The Death of a Moth,” Dillard not only continues to use the symbolism of candles throughout the narrative, she also mentions the number of candles or wicks numerically throughout her writing. When on the mountains, Dillard first only refers to “the candle” (7) when the moth begins burning from its flame. Later on, the author writes that the candle the moth continues to fuel “had two wicks, two flames of identical light, side by side” (8). At the very end, Dillard writes “I have three…

Marvell, on the other hand, uses metaphors in his poem to create a rather different effect. He mentions that his mistress’ beauty cannot be found “in [her] marble vault”. (26) The marble fault is a metaphor for his mistress’ final resting place, her cemetery. He then proceeds to compare their bodies of making love to each other as “roll our strength into one ball” (42, 43) as well as the finite time of our days on earth as the “iron gates of life” (44). Unlike Shakespeare, the effect created by…

This was some what hard for me to find a poem that is interesting to me, because I enjoy poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickerson, and Robert Frost. Sometimes I even like poems by Edgar Allen Poe. However, my all time favorite writer is Maya Angelou. Out of all her poems I would have to say that I love “Phenomenal Woman” more. “Phenomenal Woman” is a poem that expresses and honors the achievement of women in life. It also tells women no matter what your size may be you are beautiful inside and…

In the beginning of Paula Kopacz article, she addresses concern about whether Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “The Four Monarchies,” is finished or not. Kopacz explains how Bradstreet is “restless” to finish the poem, and that “the circumstances made finishing impossible” (175). Although many people have supported that this poem was not finished, Kopacz argues that the poem was finished after Bradstreet successfully reached New England. Critics do not recognize the finished poem because it was not…

experienced for herself. Emily Dickinson tells that she likes to experience the world through her eyes and that to her knowledge knew no other way to experience the world around her. But the world was too big for her, for her tolerance to the world was only for fine experiences not ones that could break her heart. She then grew wary of the world on the other side of her walls. “So safer – guess – with just my soul Upon the window pane Where other creatures put their eyes –…

In Julia Alvarez “Sometimes the Words Are so Close” in the introduction of the poem she is presenting herself as the person who the poem is mentioning. She is in a situation in her point of life where she has difficulties in expressing her inner self with the modern society. She has embodied poetry for herself expression of the person who she wishes she could be. Through the help and love for poetry she has been able to show the reader more of her inner persona. In “practicing for the real me I…

Secondly, all of Dickinson's work uses numerous poetic devices such as personification, metaphors, alteration, rhyme, and tone throughout the poem to create dramatize the meaning of death and create intense imagery. In the first poem, Emily Dickinson uses personification to shows how she and death travel together in the stanza two “We slowly drove‐He knew no haste”(Dickinson “ Because I could Not Stop For Death” 5). Death is being personified as a person who is driving to death. She said, “I…

Death is prevalent across a large variety of literary works throughout history. Since the dawn of time, death is something that we are afraid of; a dark entity that hangs over every person in their lifetime. Naturally, many authors will make their stories around, about, and featuring motifs of death; due to the large part that death plays in our lives. Death played a large part in the works that we have studied, particularly Jane Eyre, “We Are Seven”, and “Simon Lee, the old huntsman.” Firstly,…

The evolution of American literature has progressed since the time of the Puritans when they arrived in the New World. Now in the 1800s, Emily Dickinson writes condensed, but complex poems that express her thoughts of death, life, love, nature, and God. She becomes captivated by science and nature in her schooling, which she often writes about in her poems. Her poem numbered eighty-five and titled, “A Light Exists in Spring,” expresses Dickinson’s fascination with the nature and feeling of…

Emily Dickinson has lost several of her friends and her family members so that made the main themes of this poem is about death. Death inform the most of her poetry because she feel frustrated for her lost. ‘’I could not not for death is not exclusive domain of poet or writer. ‘’Because I could not stop for death’’ is very common and standard imaged about death because we commonly refer to differently aspect of our life as a journey. Emily Dickinson compared our life with a journey said that…