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For this fieldwork project, I have decided to analyze a poem. Out of the many poems that I have read in my entire life, I can’t recall one that really caught my attention and made me want to keep reading. That is, until now. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “My Life Has Stood A Loaded Gun,” is one heck of a masterpiece that I just have to talk about it. First, I would like to say that each stanza in this poem, had me feeling some type of way. Each line, brought a mess of imagery in my mind. Every dash I…

In “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, Death is ready to claim the speaker’s soul, but just before she leaves they strove through memory lane. The speaker doesn’t seem scared at all because she called Death’s action “kindly”, making Death seem friendly. The figures of speech of anaphora, imagery, and personification were presented in this poem to help create a certain effect and reveal the true meaning of this poem. The message is to enjoy life as long as you can because…

poem “XIV” Emily Dickinson shines a light on the rising search for independence, jurisdiction, and escaping the tyranny of conformity. Motivationally stating that she has “stopped being theirs,” (1) Dickinson awakens the need for individuals, most importantly women, to stand up against the fate chosen for them by society and to fight to forge and discover their own path to take in the ever winding road of life. Wielding a swift amount of metaphors, Diction, alliteration, and Dickinson calls…

the edge. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson, death is the central idea for both works. In Poe’s story, the narrator goes down the path of insanity over the eye of an old man and would plan the latter’s murder. In Dickinson’s poem, she uses death to portray the deterioration of her sanity. Poe and Dickinson both use the concept of hearing voices and death along with repetitive words and phrases to further develop…

I can remember going to Bay Beach with my family and thinking that the small wooden roller coaster was so impressive. However, as I grew up, I rode better and better roller coasters. Only then did I realize how much the one at Bay Beach pales in comparison. The funeral also shows this idea that our views of the world are not always correct and are subject to change . in "The Funeral" by Gordon Parks, the speaker changes their perspective of the world as their life goes on . Gordon Parks uses…

Esteban Borja Pena Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Emily was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. She attended the university of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Some of her quotes are “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”, “Forever is composed of nows.”, “Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” Throughout most of her life, she seemed to have had very few visitors and sporadically left her house. The people who…

being is because they are different but alike as well. “The noiseless patient spider” is written by Walt Whitman. This poem is about a spider who cannot find a home, and allows the wind to find the perfect location. The second poem, written by Emily Dickinson, discusses a soul watching over an empire to see if she admires what she observes, if so, she will “shut the door”, or in other words get a host and live in that empire. There are many ways to compare the two poems, but this essay will only…

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…

As someone with a rather intimate and longstanding connection to death, it is no surprise that Emily Dickinson often used poetry as a medium to explore her ever-developing relationship with mortality. Her literary investigation of as much is incredibly diverse in content, her poems often highlighting her attempts to cope with the death of loved ones, or perhaps portraying her endeavors to deepen her understanding of herself and the world around her. Wrought with complexity, Dickinson's poetry on…

Emily Dickinson is a poet that tends to break all the rules of what society has formed about poetry and how it should be. This can make it challenging to read, but after careful analysis a reader can take the lines and make some sensible connections. Being the rebel that she is makes her poetry captivating to read despite its complexity because much of it could be interpreted in many different ways. Dickinson dives into a couple themes multiple times in her poetry death, destiny, and doubt.…