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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…

The idea of the poem is talking about a person who measure 's people grief in order to realize that she 's not alone. The narrator wonders “if it weighs like mine—or has an easier size.” (1-4). Dickinson uses the comparison of weight to intensity to measure the grief, so the narrator is measuring the intensity of the grief the person is experiencing. Every time the speaker weighs the grief, she finds that hers is stronger. The tone of the poem is…

Death is a frequently explored theme in poetry. Despite the prevalence of this theme, each poet has their own distinct viewpoint about it and portray it in such a way that reflects their beliefs. These differences are both in attitude towards death as well as the point of view of the speaker. Some authors take on an optimistic portrayal of death whereas others use a pessimistic perspective. Point of view can be either through the eyes of someone who has died or someone who has lost a loved one.…

In the very first line of the poem, Emily Dickinson writes as the speaker that she dies; therefore, it is possible that the reader can begin reading stanza four and proceed in reverse order. Emily Dickinson uses loneliness to show how people contemplate their last moments of life. In the third stanza, Emily Dickinson writes about the speaker willing away her keepsakes, which she describes as the portion of her that is assignable. It seems as if she finds more value in her keepsakes than…

Differences and Similarities of Two Poems Have you ever lost close relatives or friends by death? What did you feel when you lost them? Did you ask where death took them? Emily Dickinson, a famous American poet, answers these questions in her two poems called “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.” Dickinson uses various techniques such as simile, metaphor, anaphora to express the shared theme of Death and the tone of the poems. Both poems are about immortality,…

The Narration of Death: How Traditions Narrate Death and its Effect on Community Throughout the semester, we as a class have examined numerous different religions and the traditions they follow pertaining to death and the afterlife. In many cases, death is seen as an extremely simple process: the dead gets buried and then you send sympathy to those close to the deceased. However, this is very much not the case. Each of these traditions works on two levels: they are built around honoring the…

not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson shows the clear dynamics of an outer body viewing of leading into the afterlife. Dickinson has been known to use the concept of light and dark in her previous writing. She is fascinated with the subject of death and portrays this in a comforting manner. It is no wonder the author consistently uses metaphors, dark tones, and styles in each stanza by illustrating the distressing subject of death in a more lighthearted way. Dickinson demonstrates the theme…

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is one of the poems that I will never forget, it is one of my favorite poems. It is a poem that really makes you ask yourself questions. Questions like, why would she write something like this? She mainly wrote it because of her background. From the time her parents divorced till the time she was raped. She felt like she was nothing and useless. A lot of people feel like this sometimes and they could relate to this poem. This poem is strong and…

For many people it is important to leave a legacy or something they can be remembered for when they die. People leave their mark in this world because that is the only way to prove they existed. In Ozymandias, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a traveler describes the ruins of what was once a great monument of Ozymandias, and now is a “colossal wreck” (13). Nothing lasts forever, everything comes to an end, and you are either remembered or forgotten. Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramesses II…

Media Review Three In his article, Jason Diamond shares one of Flannery O’Connor’s prayers, which she wrote during her stay at the University of Iowa anywhere between 1946-1947 when she experiences doubt in her writing capabilities (Diamond 3). In these prayers, Diamond says that O’Connor “wrote her thoughts and prayers, displaying the same kind of self-doubt we see in so many writers today, but balanced with an unwavering faith…” (Diamond 3). Although Diamond agrees that O’Connor’s works seem…