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    Not every poet was a guy there was also females like Emily Dickinson. She was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended mount Holyoke female seminary in south Hedley, but only for a year throughout her life she left her home and she found people that in packed her life on her poetry. She started by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she first met on her trip to Philadelphia. In 1860 she left her trip to go visit her home. By the 1860 Dickinson lived in almost complete…

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    William Faulkner's Use of Characterization in A Rose for Emily In a quote by Margaret Atwood “people are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that does not mean they are going to be that way”. William Faulkner in his story A Rose for Emily he very carefully pieces his main character limitations using layers of carefully placed details. That are described through a variety of narrators that vividly describe her as being large scale and also like a tree crumbling. He…

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    Throughout history, poetry has been used by many to teach lessons and express the feelings of humanity. During the nineteenth century, authors began to write in a fashion known as Realism, which closely mimics the basis of real life, though more often focuses on acknowledging the negative aspects of humanity. The goal of writing in this style was to promote social reforms and change the mindset of mankind. Death was not an uncommon subject for the realist movement, and many renowned poets from…

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    Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory” and Emily Dickinson “I’m Nobody! Who are you? “are two memorable poems that inspired generations of readers. Richard Cory defines what it means to be richer than a king and well known. While Emily Dickinson promotes an idea that she deeply valued. The idea signified privacy over popularity. Although the two iconic poets had many differences they shared similar characteristics, such as their appearance versus reality in society. The initial interpretation…

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    for Emily” written by William Faulkner and “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather focus on two main characters. Both Faulkner and Cather use their characters to prove a point or an outcome of a theory. Williams Faulkner uses Emily as his main character. Emily is a beautiful girl who used to live with her father. On the other hand Willa Cather used Paul as his main character. Paul is a high school student who also used to live with his father. Both stories focus on one main factor. In “A Rose for Emily”…

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    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…

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    your own safe space to be able to relax, open up and be productive. Although Emily Dickinson actively removed herself from society and didn’t travel to gain inspiration like other authors, she did spend time immersing her mind in her subject matter, life. Because of this, her poetry expresses potent emotional ideas and truths of the heart and soul that can touch everyone. As a separate mind and body from society, Emily saw the world through windows and paper. She created her own independent…

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    In the short story, “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, gossip functions as the main way that most people in the town learn anything about Emily. Throughout Emily’s life the townspeople were never able to know her personally and this caused the townspeople to make assumptions and gossip about her life. A few good examples include when Emily purchased the silver men’s toilet and when she bought arsenic. When Emily was seen in public buying arsenic, many people quickly assumed that she was…

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    life will not matter unless they make some kind of contribution to the world that will make them indelible to future generations of man-kind. Emily Dickinson faced this dilemma more realistically than most with acceptance of the fact that no matter what she did in her lifetime, one day she would be forgotten. In her poem “I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce,” Emily Dickinson promotes her theme about how identity is affected by death through the choice of the persona she adopts throughout them…

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    William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect and poverty of the new times in the town of Jefferson. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying house, coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay, and also emphasize her mental degeneration, and further illustrate the outcome of Faulkner's story. Miss Emily's decaying house, not only lacks genuine love…

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