John Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was a female author of poetry from Amherst, Massachusetts in born in 1830 and died in 1886. Only a handful of her hundreds of poems were published before her death in 1886. Furthermore, Dickinson has since joined Walt Whitman in the literary canon as one of the two most significant American poets of the nineteenth century. (Bluemle, S. R., 2008) I will discuss about her illness she had in her life, the language of her poetry that reflects on her life of how her works was…

The poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson is a metaphoric poem meaning about life and its struggles. The theme of the poem is hope. The tone of the poem is optimism and hopefulness. The author uses the figurative language of metaphor and personification to express the theme of hope. One type of figurative language used in the poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” is metaphor. The author uses metaphor to express the theme of hope. She shows hope and its meaning to…

written by Emily Dickinson and it taught me how poetry is written and it also carries a meaning or an hidden message, also an expression or thought that the person feels. For example, in one of her poems “hope” she uses an example of a bird or a angel to express her thought or feelings and how it can destroy you in a quick instant, but it can also help without expecting anything from you. I have been inspired to try to write a poetry with an expression or a message hidden by Emily Dickinson.…

Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help…

many poems indulging in the thoughts revolving around their soul and its journey. While in the other hand a group of poets took a pantheist view towards the abrupt ending of our lives, projecting that once we die we return to that we came from. Dickinson wrote of the experience of death during life and other poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson and Walt Whitman wrote about the…

Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has express her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again…

Russell M. Nelson once said, “We were born to die and we die to live”. Emily Dickinson, a 19th century American writer from Amherst, Massachusetts, explored the intrinsic meanings of life and death through several of her poems and literature. Dickinson resided in a pious household; consequently, she continually questioned her roots and early religious teachings. In this poem, “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” Dickinson exposes her view of death by using humor and irony to demonstrate that death…

Emily Dickinson had many different writing, most of which revolved around the same common themes. She didn’t want her works published, and kept most of it private until she died. Many wonder why she wanted no attention during her lifetime, when her poems said differently. What were the reasons she wrote using the same common themes? Maybe because of the way she was raised, or maybe because she was writing what she felt rather than saying it to the world, maybe both. Emily Dickinson sure did…

The assigned Emily Dickinson poems seem to have a theme connecting death with God. I believe Dickinson sees the world through the lens of loss. Grief seems to consume her poetry. It is as if Dickinson ruminates on the subject of death analyzing it from many angles. Her poetry also hints at her attempts to reconcile her thoughts and feelings about death and her relationship with God. I think in the grief-filled aftermath of loss, Dickinson’s contemplates the role of God in life and death as…

with God and his creation. Using this way of finding your peaceful consolation, especially amongst nature, was exactly how Emily Dickinson described her faith. As being part of the shared beliefs, I found her expressions of the faith often understandable, and possibly even similar to my own. Although she holds a pessimistic view towards practiced religions, Dickinson continues to express her belief in God. Through her poems “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers” & “Some keep the Sabbath”, she…