Emily Warren Roebling

Mark Twain once stated, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” In Virginia Woolf’s essay The Death of the Moth, she observes the moth’s actions and the struggles it faces. Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes, and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death…

The Holiday, "Dia De Los Muertos," or, "Day of The Dead," if translated into English is held for three days from October 31st to November 2nd. The people of Mexico gather friends and family together during these few days and remember and pray for family members who have died. Members of the families from people who have died will build altars called "Ofrendas." These altars honor the deceased and are decorated with skulls made from sugar and marigold flowers. The Ofrendas also have the…

Emily Dickinson is saying that death is not something to be afraid of. The reasons why is because even before it is time to go into the afterlife death is kind and greets the ones dying, he takes a stroll around what the person's life was and all of the…

Emily Dickenson has an openly bleak way of looking at the world. “The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film,” is one of her many short poems. Her works have a gothic style that changes with her mood. The day she wrote this, I imagine that she was watching people out her window. It is easy to judge a book by its cover, but the cover is meant to engage you. Here Emily is artfully saying that even with a hint of distraction or decoration, a whole picture is still seen. Whether looking at people,…

Ashley Broom Dr. Ellis English 391 1 March 2016 Sacred Sarcasm and Skepticism: Emily Dickinson’s Disbelief of Heaven Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson struggled with believing in the existence of Heaven, and wrote many poems on doubt and skepticism of an afterlife. She grew up in a religious bubble where people were constantly telling her how they experienced their faith, and the feelings they had that were associated with things like prayer and death. A good portion of Dickinson’s poetry…

In these two poems, Remember and The Cross of Snow, bot talk about death and how the loved ones grieved for that death. Both poems have similarities with repition, rhyme scheme, and a shit, but they also have differences with point of view, metaphors, allusions, and an overall different message. In Rember, it repeats the phrase "gone away" which emphasizes the solemness of death. the same thing happens in the first two lines of the other poem. It repeats the word "long" which is addressed to…

seem to put their feelings and emotions from their life into their art. Authors such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Kafka put their own emotions and even occurrences from their life into their literature. This shows how their view affects the way they write their stories as well as how in depth they go, giving the literature much more interesting and pursuing a greater experience for the reader. Emily Dickinson inserts an abundance of her emotions and feelings into her works and it…

With regards to Miss Emily and her relationship to the townspeople, repeated images of isolation that reveal a subsequent sense of separation and the confusion of identity, are expressed through the narrator’s description of ‘tableau.’ In the same manner that a tableau is “a representation,” the townspeople, similarly, have only a portrayal of Miss Emily’s character and this is seen through textual references made to her in silhouette (Faulkner 1350). Like a silhouette, Miss Emily’s identity is…

the box and produces very interesting works. The difference between Collins and phonies who simply perform absurd acts for attention is his end goal. Collins’ goal of changing the landscape of poetry can be found within three of works, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s clothes, Flames, and “To my Favorite 17-Year-Old High school Girl”. Collins’ goal is to promote freedom and creativity within society and the poetry…

Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory” and Emily Dickinson “I’m Nobody! Who are you? “are two memorable poems that inspired generations of readers. Richard Cory defines what it means to be richer than a king and well known. While Emily Dickinson promotes an idea that she deeply valued. The idea signified privacy over popularity. Although the two iconic poets had many differences they shared similar characteristics, such as their appearance versus reality in society. The initial interpretation…