Emily the Strange

Many people have different outlets to express themselves. Emily Dickinson chose to express herself through her writing. Even though her she was not a famous poem in her living days her work did inspire many in the future. Emily Dickinson writes about things that are popular in anyone’s life such as love and death. In the poem “I could not stop for death” Emily Dickinson personifies death in order to reflect on her life before her passing. Many people including myself can relate to her themes…

Is death scary? Birth, old age, sickness, and death are natural stages of human being which is unavoidable. In the end, everyone has to suffer through the death; however, is this true that every death is scary or it is not frightening as it seems, yet appeals meaningfulness? “The Man to Send Rain Clouds" composed by Leslie Marmon Silko (Story #1) and “The Cask of Amontillado” from Edgar Allan Poe (Story #2) are two pieces of literature which is going to answer the questions above- death is not…

reading. The importance of individuality and the necessary process of strengthening oneself, even the benefit of a degree of selfishness, are themes that appear throughout How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom and “I Stepped from Plank to Plank” by Emily Dickinson. Harold Bloom’s thesis is that how and what one reads has to be distinctly personalized to themselves; because of our constant race against the clock, reading needs to be for the individual alone. Dickinson enforces this idea of solitary…

In this marking period we read a book called, Belle Prater’s Boy, by: Ruth White. In this Book, Belle prater goes missing in crooked ridge and everyone around town have their theories. Some say she left off with a man in a car, others say there is a dead body in the woods with Belle’s name on it, but most importantly no one has seen her for two months and have no idea why she left. Her husband, Everett Prater couldn’t cope with the death of her so he became alcoholic. Belle’s parent, grandma and…

Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 and was the youngest of her siblings. Rossetti had two brothers, Gabriel and William and one sister, Maria. In the article “Biography of Christina Rossetti,” it states that “Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and her mother made her study religious works, classics, fairytales, and novels.” As Rossetti began to study those religious works, classics, fairytales, and novels, something sparked Rossetti’s writing abilities. In the “Biography of…

one can understand that people in general will allow their fears and agonies to consume them. In the poem The Soul unto itself, Emily Dickinson portrays the soul as a being open to interpretation, in the poem she describes the soul as both a spy and an imperial friend, creating a paradox as one must think an, “imperial friend” could never be an “agonizing Spy”. Emily Dickinson was a paradoxical, philosophical, poet, one of the hardest tongue twisters that is also one of the hardest combination…

“But Not Forgotten” Poem Analysis Have you ever been with someone and have them swear their love to you, only to have them leave you for another? Or maybe a very good friend had to leave you? Or a loved one has passed away? Dorothy Parker faced many situations like these throughout her life, starting from her mother’s death, to her history of affairs with a number of men. Both, these interactions with people and losses she faced, greatly influenced her writing. I prefer to read this as a…

Melissa Zbichorski B2 Lit Paper 1.4 Poet theodore Roethke is probably one of poet that are very well- known, Oe of the poem that he's especially known for is Elegy For Jane. He uses lots of natural imagery through this whole piece . Mr. Roethke uses all this imagery of nature to express himself throughout the poem even though this poem is about Jane. Furthermore the reason why Theodore used a lot of natures in his poem was because the way he grew up . When he was growing up his father…

Emily Dickinson’s, “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church,” presents a unique poem regarding the man-made traditions that numerous people follow in church with the intention to draw closer to God, and whether or not one should observe the Sabbath by staying at home or fellowshipping with other Christians in a church building. In this particular poem, Dickinson is attempting to inform and instruct the audience of a single method of worship that can also be practiced in the home setting. The…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are recognized as two of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century. Walt Whitman wrote many long and complex poems, while Emily Dickinson wrote many short and simple poems. However, both of them are very similar in their main themes of the poems. Both poets have several poems that are centered around death and the human reaction to death, but they portray them differently. In Walt Whitman’s “As at Thy Portals Also Death”, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”,…