Emily the Strange

Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lover Within Emily Dickinson’s writing she portrays a forceful emotional experience with desire and agony over separation and lack of response from and rejection of love by a speculated secret lover whom we may never know. With poems, research, allegations, and claims from researchers who studied her writing, we can put the pieces of the puzzle together and help determine the role of a secret lover. After reading claims from an article called “Beyond the Master Letters,”…

In both Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Corpse Bride (2005), the characters were relatively ‘different’ from those that they were surrounded by, therefore making them strange and considerably odd in the eyes of people they came in contact with- there was sympathy, pity, indifference, sacrifice, attraction, jealously, repulsion, understanding, fear, and prejudice surrounding both these characters as they discovered the real world. Both films are extremely fairytale-like, which…

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…

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", the main character Emily Grierson is a burden to the town she resides in. Emily is living in a town that is still being haunted by the Civil War due to her presence.The town views her the way it views its confederate, agrarian past – it has to take care of it, but at the same time, they are stuck with it although they don't want to be. The location of the story explains the town's faliure to move on to a new…

Emily Dickenson’s poem titled My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – is one of the many poetic works she created in her lifetime. The staple ambiguity of her poetry is ever present in this poem, which reflects the eccentric nature of Dickenson herself. This poem reflect the anger within her life and show how she is carried away by the male personified version of her anger and becomes an instrument of his. This poem offers an inside look into Dickenson’s psyche, as it show that she feels empowered by…

From the first stanza, the Emily Dickinson starts off with a hopeful suggestion to the audience that “hope” is like a thing with feathers which is perched within the soul. The author seems to be using the metaphor that hope is like a bird because birds with feathers. Since birds perch on objects, the soul is used as a metaphor to suggest to the audience that the bird or hope is sitting inside the person. The audience from this point could assume that the bird or hope is inside every person. The…

Sadness, hopelessness, desperateness are described the bad feeling. How many people can describe that feeling? However, Emily Dickinson –one of the greatest poets in American- showed her feeling by poems with strange ways and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” is a poem, which is showed clearly expression feeling. As I said, she created her poems with strange way and this poem is also created with this way. “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” uses a funeral to illustrate her feeling. However, it is…

“A Rose for Emily” Critical Analysis “In good fiction, certain of the details will tend to accumulate meaning from the action of the story itself, and when this happens they become symbolic in the way they work” (O’Connor). In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” many components that may be initially dismissed in a passage, through intelligent writing, gather a deeper meaning. Homer, for example, appears to be just another tragedy to strike the pathetic life of Emily Grierson. However, many…

In the story "A Rose for Emily", the author, William Faulkner, portrays Emily as a mysterious older lady, which is unusual. In most people 's idea of an older woman, everyone knows what is going on with her; she talks about her grandchildren and pays her bills. Emily Grierson was not like that at all. She was, in fact, the complete opposite. She was traditional, stubborn, overly adoring over subjects that could easily be solved a different way. Emily Grierson lives in traditional ways. She felt…

A Rose For Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner. It revolves around a woman who lived her entire life in solitude in a small town. The yellow wallpaper on the other hand, by Charlotte Perkins, depicts the struggle of a woman with psychosis who is deprived treatment due to ignorance of her doctor husband which leads to deterioration of her health drastically. These two stories are interrelated in that both represent plies of women in a sexist society where men impose decisions on…