Eternity

Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Literary Analysis Death. When most people hear that they do not ever associate it with sun sets and seeing children in the playground. Death is usually personified, by many poets, as a Grim Reaper who cuts away peoples lives, like a reaper who cuts his crops to harvest. Death has even been portrayed as a smooth gentleman about to inflict pain in the person. Thus, most people are afraid of Death, but not Emily Dickinson (“Because”). She…

life. The school being her childhood, the field of grain being her adulthood, and the setting sun as the end of her life. At the end of the poem, she sees the horses’ heads and says that they are going towards eternity. The speaker only guesses ("surmised") that they are heading for eternity (“Emily” 1). All of these examples reinforce the theme that life is a journey that death takes one on. Death is along with people throughout his/her entire life. He is the one who is driving him/her to…

Suppressing senses in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn Abstract: John Keats, as a pursuer of beauty, is well-known for his beautiful sensory language in his odes, but many of the odes intentionally limit the senses they inhabit. With particular references to Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn, this paper focuses on the reasons for suppressing senses and the methods of creating an abundance of believable sensation with limited senses. Key words: Ode to a…

All From Her American literature is just that - American. It’s written by Americans, represents American ideas, and has syntax that other types of literature don’t have. American poets of the nineteenth century incorporate these ideas as well as others into their own writing and poetry. One idea of this is romanticism, which can be defined as “an emphasis on feelings” (Roets), and one of the poets who uses this idea is Emily Dickinson. According to Brenda Wineapple in “Voices of a Nation,”…

STREET ART Street art is a unique form of modern artistic expression. It has become a part of the urban environment, growing and changing with the city and the people that live there. Street art can comment on a social issue, poke fun at some aspect of society, or simply beautify a run-down area of the city. Even though the modern style of street art and graffiti was developed and perfected in the 1970s, elements of graffiti can be traced all the way back to the early 19th century. Today, street…

illuminate the meaning of her passing to the eternal afterlife. In the poem, Death isn’t frightening or an intimidating reaper looking to take the souls of people. It is rather a gentle guide helping to assist the speaker in leading her towards eternity. Death exemplifies civility in taking time to wait for the speaker, since she “could not stop for Death”. He waited until she was able to accept the fact that her life was coming to an end, to where she was no longer busy with her daily…

die “DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,” (Death be not proud line 1-2). Where in TSDC death is portrayed as an old half broken cottage all gloomy and waiting for its next owner to arrive for eternity. “The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d,” (The Soul’s Dark Cottage Line 1) “As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,” (The Soul’s Dark Cottage Line 4-5). They are the same by placing a…

person that has his full attention. When you are able to hear her soft voice, the gentle mans eyes begin to smile. Just from a glance of the elderly couple you would believe that an eternity of love was shared between. I bet they…

In the last stanza of this poem, Dickinson states, “I first surmised the Horses’ Heads were toward Eternity-” Richard Brantley explains this quote by saying, “In the realm of Death, time has elapsed into centuries for the speaker, though it seems shorter than her last day of life when she first “surmised” that her journey was toward Eternity.” This suggests that even though humans die, they live on. Dickinson limns that humans are boundless and unlimited, even through…

For most of my life I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was adopted by two loving wonderful parents who were converts to the church, and sealed to them for time and all eternity. I have six siblings that I love dearly. I truly love my family, and care immensely about each member. I have also gone to church for most of my life, I was baptized, I attended young womens, and seminary. I did what I was told, but I never really felt truly converted. I have a fear…