Emily McLaughlin

we’ve all surely asked ourselves, always present in the back of one’s mind. It resembles a seemingly never-ending search for purpose in life to surmount to the inevitable. As Russell M. Nelson once said, “We were born to die and we die to live”. Emily Dickinson, a 19th century American writer from Amherst, Massachusetts, explored the intrinsic meanings of life and death through several of her poems and literature. Dickinson resided in a pious household; consequently, she continually…

Emily Dickinson had many different writing, most of which revolved around the same common themes. She didn’t want her works published, and kept most of it private until she died. Many wonder why she wanted no attention during her lifetime, when her poems said differently. What were the reasons she wrote using the same common themes? Maybe because of the way she was raised, or maybe because she was writing what she felt rather than saying it to the world, maybe both. Emily Dickinson sure did…

The assigned Emily Dickinson poems seem to have a theme connecting death with God. I believe Dickinson sees the world through the lens of loss. Grief seems to consume her poetry. It is as if Dickinson ruminates on the subject of death analyzing it from many angles. Her poetry also hints at her attempts to reconcile her thoughts and feelings about death and her relationship with God. I think in the grief-filled aftermath of loss, Dickinson’s contemplates the role of God in life and death as…

Imagine yourself surrounded amongst an opulent, and ever so peaceful setting of nature; feeling one with God and his creation. Using this way of finding your peaceful consolation, especially amongst nature, was exactly how Emily Dickinson described her faith. As being part of the shared beliefs, I found her expressions of the faith often understandable, and possibly even similar to my own. Although she holds a pessimistic view towards practiced religions, Dickinson continues to express her…

people are entitled to their own opinion regarding the world they live in and the life they allow themselves to live. Although, there are some authors that are more capable of expressing their feelings and experiences through their work than others. Emily Dickinson produced almost 1800 poems in her lifetime to which every one of them were based on the experiences she had in her own life. Although, a single poem did not describe a single experience, the basis of her poems showed the lifestyle…

Emily Dickinson: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass A Modernist poem written during the age of Romanticism, Emily Dickinson’s A Narrow Fellow in the Grass displays nature in a rather unique and peculiar fashion. The poem itself also delves into several other topics, such as fear, awe, religion, and sex. Throughout the course of the play, a young boy-the narrator of Dickinson’s poem- meticulously describes the sighting of a slithering snake as an encounter with a “narrow fellow in the grass”. The…

Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. She was the eighth born of nine children, although only she, two sisters, and a brother survived to adulthood. Her father, John Huy Addams, was a businessman and a local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War. Jane’s mother, Sarah Weber Addams, died when she was two years old, so she did not have much contact with her. Jane Addams, known most importantly…

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886. There was one major experience that influenced her writing; according to ReadPrints.com, “Emily’s relationship with her mother was very distant,...later Dickinson wrote a letter that she never had a mother.” Therefore Emily Dickinson is a depressive but passionate author in her poems, she focuses on uncomfortable themes like death and immortality, and affected society with her way of writing. In particular, Emily wrote “Because I could…

Tracy K. Smith is a poet, and she is the 22nd poet laureate of the United States. Carla Hayden appointed Smith a second term as poet laureate. Smith does not like how America has divided into two regions: urban and rural. Although she is from the urban region, she wants to discover solutions for the rural region. When Smith was in South Carolina, she met different people that were apart of segregation. Furthermore, she felt overwhelmed by two poems during her time visiting rural areas. The first…

As the title of Emily Dickson’s poems says, “The brain- is wider than the sky- for – put them side by side”, which means that the brain will take in the sky. Fourth line of poem says, “With ease—and You—beside.” She tries to says that the brain is deeper than the sea, and that its “Blue to Blue,” and that the brain will absorb the sea as sponges and like buckets absorb water. The brain, as she says, is like a heavy weight in God and the brain’s weight which will get away from the weight of God…