For Emily

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” Emily Dickinson lives on in the minds of people who love her and her poetry, even though she never sought the immortality that comes with fame. Dickinson had a very humble and religious upbringing, causing her to reject the idea of God but not entirely abandon the way she was taught to live and think. She lived a reclusive life in her family’s house, alone with her thoughts and emotions. Her failed love affair gave her the knowledge that…

In the 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…

Much Madness is divinest Sense - by Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - ’Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail - Assent - and you are sane - Demur - you’re straightway dangerous - And handled with a Chain - In Shirley Jackson’s intriguing short story “The Lottery,” the reader witnesses the power of conformity. The residents of the town take part in a barbaric stoning ceremony simply because it is a tradition from many…

To start off, I will be analyzing each of the poems written by Emily Dickinson. All of these poems mention heaven as an afterlife and are directed towards death. In poem 479, the words expressed melancholy and curiosity with the thought of death. This poem gave off more of a suicidal theme: "Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me-" (101). To me, this meant that she may have wanted to take her life, but could not, so death will come someday come. The reason I use the word…

“Emily Dickinson’s Contribution to the American Voice” American literature advanced when the American Revolution came along, and brought social and economic change. American folk stories, enduring tales of adventure on the frontier and Puritan lifestyle were some of the starts of the American voice. Then the start of romanticism, transcendentalism, and realism created a whole new aspect to the American voice. American literature’s universal themes of individualism, self-reliance, and slavery…

ose For Emily” is an interesting story. “A Rose For Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. The story documents Emily’s life and how the town has reacted to Emily’s life. The story takes place in the South and documents how Emily has resisted change. Faulkner is often compared to Hemingway due to the fact that they were rivals. Faulkner is a shy but egotistical while Hemingway is extroverted but humble. Faulkner likes to have a complex style while Hemingway likes to have a simple…

A Rose for Emily “When Miss Emily Grierson died…” is the enigmatic and captivating beginning to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” These words introduce a character and story that immediately capture the reader’s eagerness to know more. “It was a big squarish frame house that had once been white… Only Miss Emily’s house was left” (Faulkner 91). This first description of Emily’s home is our first look at the world she loves in. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner uses many facets of…

An Explication of “Death” by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death” is structured in quatrains, four line stanzas. It is in Iambic meter, so each foot has one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The first and third lines of each quatrain have eight syllables, and the second and fourth have six. This means the first and third lines of each stanza consist of four feet, so those lines are in Iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines have three feet each, making them…

Different tones in Dickinson’s poetry Emily Dickinson was a well known poet who is known often for her contradictory patterns. Comparing her two poems, “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz- when I Died” show a distinct different tone. For instance in the beginning of “fly buzz..”, the fly can be related to the “lord of the flies” or the devil. Thus symbolizing the speakers struggle at some point. “Between the light and me” suggests that the speaker is on their way to…

Emily Dickinson was an enigmatic figure. Her personal life has always been veiled in mystery which intrigued biographers and researchers of her poetry. Although she left over two thousand poems and approximately one thousand letters in which she enclosed a lot of details about herself, these remarks were more directed at highlighting the mysterious aura surrounding her life as well as creating an unambiguous image of herself. Researchers debate among themselves about the source of Dickinson’s…