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not death, just a negative figure. I agree that the fly represents a negative figure, but I believe Dickinson adds the fly to the poem for the sole purpose of it representing the grim reaper coming for the speaker of the poem. Nesmith states that everything about death is predetermined and that the fly provides a break in the routine nature of the event. I disagree with this idea because, if Dickinson made the fly represents death,…

Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost are two of the most famous American poets. Their poems are read and studied by students across the country. Not only were their poems popular, they were influential on society. They each had signature styles of writing, poetic elements, and impact upon their readers, but they also had several similarities. Dickenson and Frost’s styles are similar because of their use of first- person narrative. Most of their poems are written in…

Imagine a death of someone significant. In “Before She Died” by Karen Chase, she reminisces on a dear person who has passed away. The importance of one is not known until he or she has deceased. The speaker is constantly reminded of the dead person. For example, when the speaker searches for the one who died, “When I look at the sky now, I look at it for you” (1). The speaker relates sky to heaven after his or her loved one died. When the speaker says “I look at it for you” that indicates he…

Example In the poem “‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers” Emily Dickinson doesn’t use many different literary devices but uses one in particular a lot. The author uses metaphors most throughout the poem. The first example of this is the title. The title uses a metaphor to call a “thing with feathers,” a bird, hope. It doesn’t say outright that it is a bird but it can be implied because it is a thing with feathers. Even though unrelated, Dickinson uses birds and hope and compares the two in the…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two writers during the late 19th and early 20th century. They are often referred to the founders of American poetry. Both writers have many similarities and differences from each other, but neither of them can be imitated through their style. They have influenced many during and long after the Romantic era of literature. A common theme through each of their following poems is that some aspects of nature cannot be taught or learned, but only understood through…

everywhere. Throughout history, people have admired nature and its beautiful creations, especially animals, and Emily Dickinson is no exception. In “A narrow Fellow in the Grass”, Dickinson simply admires a snake, personifying it with interesting metaphors and unusual word choices. Although she respects a snake in her poem, she also feels as if he is a sly, chilling, and devious creature. Dickinson begins one of her only published poems with the lines, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass /…

Growing up next to a cemetery, Emily Dickinson was no stranger to death. Continually exposed to death, many would believe she would fear death and not write about it. One famous poem of Emily's “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” proves this untrue, as she personified Death as a gentleman. For one surrounded by death, this personification may seem surprising. However, using this along with creative literary devices, Emily created a noteworthy poem. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” has an…

When examining modern music and poetry, there is a common theme between the two especially when adding in the element of protest poetry. Artists such as Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar more recently pushing for change and calling awareness to the issues surrounding their communities, very closely relates to the protest poetry written in the 20th century. They both have the same agenda and address the same issues even though the way and tone in which it’s delivered differs from one another. Poets…

I thoroughly enjoyed reading and understanding the literary work, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The play begins in 1901 by illustrating the simple lives of ordinary people in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Wilder has created the element of purity by using small town Leria 7 characters as a universal theme. Each of his three act represents a different aspect of life staring with the simplicity of daily living through the struggles of love, marriage and then death. He opens his…

Emily Dickinson’s “Eden is that Old-fashioned House” is a very short, yet interesting poem. This poem alone describes Dickinson’s poetry style in great detail. It’s calm and mild, yet relatively depressing and sad. Dickinson talks about how the home is not the house itself, but the people around it. She refers to the Garden of Eden, and how that was the first “home” ever. She compares it to the home she lives in now, and how it as has been around in her family for a long time. The title “Eden…