For Emily

Ms. Emily and Her Tangled Web A “Rose for Emily” has a surprising start, where the reader begins at the end of Ms. Emily’s story. The opening scene is the funeral for Ms. Emily Grierson, being of Southern tradition the townspeople come to pay their respects out of their own inquisitiveness needs. Faulkner plays with his readers as her tale unfolds. It is only as one reads further that they learn more about Ms. Emily, and the life she led. Faulkner only lets his readers see moments of her…

people are entitled to their own opinion regarding the world they live in and the life they allow themselves to live. Although, there are some authors that are more capable of expressing their feelings and experiences through their work than others. Emily Dickinson produced almost 1800 poems in her lifetime to which every one of them were based on the experiences she had in her own life. Although, a single poem did not describe a single experience, the basis of her poems showed the lifestyle…

Faulkner’s twisted short story “A Rose for Emily” is still being discussed eighty-five years later. Having been made into a major motion picture in 1982, the cryptic story’s legend lives on into a new age of discussion. Miss Emily Grierson made a name for herself in the small southern town, and both forms of media convey the deep twists of her life in one way or another. The movie and book contain similarities like the odor problem and the townspeople’s views on Emily, as well as differences in…

Have you ever wondered how one might feel if they can’t see? Put yourself in Emily Dickinson's shoes. Even Though she is literally speaking about not being able to see, her poems might have a metaphorical message. In the first poem, she speaks about how we might get blinded by things in life or we might have a struggle and figure it out and overcome it. In the second poem, she wants to state the fact that her vision is fading and she doesn't appreciate the things she can't see. In this poem…

William Faulkner constructs “A Rose for Emily” in a manner that follows the traditional ideals and behavior of the small-town American South and formally imitates the back and forth way one tells a story. The first section of the short story begins toward the chronological end of the story, as it starts with Miss Emily’s death and then works its way backward in a way that mimics the thought processes of the townsfolk. The first sentence includes the pronoun “our,” which indicates that the…

Emily Dickinson, an American poet, has written hundreds of poems. The total count falls just short of 1,800 (Roberts 735). Obviously, she wrote on many topics. Two of her most frequent topics are love and death. While love and death may be very common themes in many people 's writing, they are ironic themes for Dickinson for several reasons. Dickinson was never married and never had an open relationship in her life, but she did go through many deaths. This makes it ironic that she still wrote…

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…

writers look at these vast topics and they individualize them. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered two of the most American prominent poets, their personally styles are totally different and similar in comparative ways. Walt Whitman in “I Sing the Body Electric” examines the beauty of the human body and decribes its importance in connecting with the soul. However, the poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”, by Emily Dickinson, is an abstract statement on the relationship between the…

fictional short story, "A Rose for Emily" he illustrates Emily Grierson’s struggle to find her own identity in the judgmental society surrounding her. As the story continues, the generations become more modern. The encroaching subjective society tries to overcome Emily’s traditionalist manner, but Emily’s behavior conveys how she surpasses the new generation, and continued her tradition as though she did before. Faulkner’s use of a first person-plural narration potrays Emily Grierson as a…

Even though Emily Dickinson was severely depressed, she managed to get through it, and keep going. She was an amazing poet and an inspiration to other poets as well. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She spent most of her life in the family home that was built in 1813 by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. The Dickinson home was a center of Amherst society and the site of annual Amherst College commencement receptions due to the founding of Amherst…