For Emily

Emily Murphy was a powerful and influential figure in Canada’s history. Emily was a huge contributor to Canadian feminism and the improvement of women’s rights. The Person’s Case of 1929, involved a group of five women known as the “famous five”, Emily Murphy was a part of this group fighting for women’s right to be considered ‘persons’. Emily was also a part of the Dower act, this case was for an Alberta women who was left homeless after her husband sold their and property and left with all the…

. Emily Dickinson is known for writing poems that relate to the way she feels about certain emotions or inevitable events, such as life or death. My first impression of this particular poem is that Dickinson was feeling sorrowful or hurt. I can definitely tell that many harsh feelings were felt while writing this poem. When analyzing this poem, many things stand out to me that let me know how deeply Dickinson felt her pain and also how often she thinks of her own pain. The title itself lets…

1.) This poem by Emily Dickinson describes the scene and atmosphere when someone is dying. The speaker’s final moments of life are portrayed as somber and quiet, so quiet that the speaker can evidently hear a “fly buzz,” which is a type of onomatopoeia and helps to emphasize the silence of the room. Another figurative devise that is employed to further establish the overwhelming silence is the use of a simile when comparing the stillness between the “heaves of storm” which would be relatively…

An example of this precision is the sentence from "A Rose for Emily" discussed in Alice Hall Petry's article: "Thus she passed from generation to generation - dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse"(280). In this sentence Faulkner summarizes Emily Grierson's character and her relationship with her community in five adjectives. While probably overlooked by the casual reader, Petry explores how closer examination reveals Faulkner's organization and manipulation of language. Placed…

Emily Dickinson’s poems, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “There’s a certain slant of light”, and “I felt a funeral in my brain” convey a sense of poignancy which reflects the feelings of isolation of the people in America during the Civil War. Dickinson exploits nature as a metaphor to make an abstract idea more “real”, characterizing the images and feelings during the Civil War Era. She uses elaborate and fanciful metaphors to illustrate a depressing mood, characterizing the speaker’s…

After the death of Emily Dickinson, her many poems were published. Those poems quickly made her one of the most famous American poets of all time. What draws readers in the most by her poems is the mystery involved. Since the poems were published after her death, no one knows what they were truly about. For example, one of her famous poems is “The Moon is distant from the Sea”. This poem is really about the gender roles of a love relationship of her time. The true meaning of the poem is…

A Rose For Emily In William Faulkner’s, A Rose For Emily, Faulkner illustrates a southern town that is rapidly changing to fit the times. Emily Grierson is an old fashioned woman who watches her town alter around her but, her tenacious attitude towards change prohibits her from adjusting to a new lifestyle. Faulkner portrays the change in the social structure of the American South in the early twentieth century with Homer Barron, Miss Emily’s house, and the townspeople. Homer Barron was a dark…

the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.” This was similar to how Emily Dickinson viewed death, it was not something to be feared, but something to be embraced. Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems focus on this theme of death. Emily Dickinson’s early life and encounters with death led to the themes of death and dying in Dickinson’s works “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Felt a Funeral…

Some people dwell on living much longer. Emily Dickinson is one of those low-spirited person. In spite of, she is one of the most distinguished, brilliant, and grandiose, American authors in the history of history. Emily was talented with writing and also she was well-known for her deserted companionship. It is true that Dickinson was lonely, but it is also true that her alarmingly uneventful life is reflected in letters and poems, not in known actions. Emily Dickinson’s reputation is a mystery;…

In this essay I will be comparing famous poets, Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and comparing their themes, background experience in style which contain the literary elements with some examples of that are imagery and their format literary movements and I will analyze these two poets. What women and Emily Dickinson may seem very different, but are much the same and have some similarities as I will explain in the following essay. In many ways these two things were different in Walt Whitman's…