Emily Murphy

Emily Dickinson’s most productive years as a poet were that of the years of the Civil War. Her interest in the war was reflected in her personal relationships with others, letters, and poems. Of Emily Dickinson’s friends, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Bowels and, Frazar Stearns were more famously known for their participation in the war. Higginson and Dickinson corresponded often during the war, which may have given her more of an insight as to what was happening on the front lines. While…

The Fantasy stories of Emily Brontë Who would have ever thought that from making up stories and creating fantasy worlds could become something big in the present even if sometimes we don’t get to experience the gift we left behind. As I read about the life of Emily Brontë, that she lived a quiet life along with her siblings it reminded me of how I live my life. As little children imagination is a big motive, for creating made up stories and fantasizing about the present and future life once we…

life will not matter unless they make some kind of contribution to the world that will make them indelible to future generations of man-kind. Emily Dickinson faced this dilemma more realistically than most with acceptance of the fact that no matter what she did in her lifetime, one day she would be forgotten. In her poem “I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce,” Emily Dickinson promotes her theme about how identity is affected by death through the choice of the persona she adopts throughout them…

Both Emily Dickinson’s and Walt Whitman’s poems have numerous differences. Their writing styles differ as well, in that Emily Dickinson’s are short and simple, while Walt Whitman’s are long, complex and largely prose-style. In Whitman’s work, “Song of Myself”, you learn much about the author. The poem was written in phases, and on page 1024, the notes at the bottom of the page describe how the title of this poem was changed throughout the years. I think this is a semblance of how the poem’s…

Emily Dickinson was a female author of poetry from Amherst, Massachusetts in born in 1830 and died in 1886. Only a handful of her hundreds of poems were published before her death in 1886. Furthermore, Dickinson has since joined Walt Whitman in the literary canon as one of the two most significant American poets of the nineteenth century. (Bluemle, S. R., 2008) I will discuss about her illness she had in her life, the language of her poetry that reflects on her life of how her works was…

The poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson is a metaphoric poem meaning about life and its struggles. The theme of the poem is hope. The tone of the poem is optimism and hopefulness. The author uses the figurative language of metaphor and personification to express the theme of hope. One type of figurative language used in the poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” is metaphor. The author uses metaphor to express the theme of hope. She shows hope and its meaning to…

is written by Emily Dickinson and it taught me how poetry is written and it also carries a meaning or an hidden message, also an expression or thought that the person feels. For example, in one of her poems “hope” she uses an example of a bird or a angel to express her thought or feelings and how it can destroy you in a quick instant, but it can also help without expecting anything from you. I have been inspired to try to write a poetry with an expression or a message hidden by Emily…

Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help…

Emily Bronte was a genius of her time when it came to writing. She came to be known by her controversial novel Wuthering Heights and the quiet nature she had. Anyone just looking at her or spending time with her wouldn’t even realize she was such a talented writer. Wuthering Heights was a jewel and parallel to her life in many ways. By looking at Wuthering Heights, one can see that Emily Bronte included themes of revenge, love, loneliness, and death because she was trying to get away from a dull…

With moments of joy comes times of sorrow, along with these polarized emotions comes celebration of new life which makes losing life easier to understand. Though this understanding comes simply, the need to explore thoughts of death still lingers. For many poets this fixation of where they will go to at a natural time undetermined by themselves fueled the writing of many poems indulging in the thoughts revolving around their soul and its journey. While in the other hand a group of poets took a…