John Dickinson

Growing up next to a cemetery, Emily Dickinson was no stranger to death. Continually exposed to death, many would believe she would fear death and not write about it. One famous poem of Emily's “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” proves this untrue, as she personified Death as a gentleman. For one surrounded by death, this personification may seem surprising. However, using this along with creative literary devices, Emily created a noteworthy poem. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” has an…

When examining modern music and poetry, there is a common theme between the two especially when adding in the element of protest poetry. Artists such as Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar more recently pushing for change and calling awareness to the issues surrounding their communities, very closely relates to the protest poetry written in the 20th century. They both have the same agenda and address the same issues even though the way and tone in which it’s delivered differs from one another. Poets…

I thoroughly enjoyed reading and understanding the literary work, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The play begins in 1901 by illustrating the simple lives of ordinary people in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Wilder has created the element of purity by using small town Leria 7 characters as a universal theme. Each of his three act represents a different aspect of life staring with the simplicity of daily living through the struggles of love, marriage and then death. He opens his…

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…

Emily Dickinson was a great poet from the 19th century. During her lifetime only about a dozen out of the thousands of poems she wrote, were actually published. Later in life she spent the vast majority of her time in her bedroom fixating on the darker topics of the mind. Dickinson uses metaphors and stanzas to expand on mental illness and to better grasp death. Emily Dickinson uses metaphors to help grasp the idea of death and put mental illnesses into perspective. In poem “340”, she compares…

Time is of the Essence Rosalia De Castro’s poems offered several interesting comparisons within her poems. De Castro’s poems, “[I well know there is nothing]” and “[The ailing woman felt her forces ebb]”, created a new perspective and interpretation of the its meaning in its entirety. In “[I well know there is nothing]”, the lines, “Well because we are so, clocks that repeat forever the same”, contain the source domain “we”, and the target domain refers to the “clocks” (De Castro 6-7). In this…

of the most prominent figures of American Literature. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830 to the leading family in Amherst. Edward Dickinson, her father, was a lawyer and served two terms in congress, but her life was nothing unusual. Her father was nothing short of a model citizen helping the town through rough times and was an elected official on the side of his career as a lawyer. Edward Dickinson served as the treasurer of Amherst College for…

Titanic In english class, we were given the poem “Titanic”. The poem was written by David R. Slavitt. Slavitt had a tough life as a kid. His mother was murdered by a teenaged robber. His experience with his deceased mother probably made him write about dark stories and poems. The poem is about how people would want to go on the Titanic and go through the same death that the people on the Titanic went through. By dying with a lot of people rather than dying alone, which is what most people do. I…

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “If I Should Die,” expresses how she feels about the world’s life after death. The poem depicts death as being peaceful and the world as disregardful. Dickinson uses various poetic devices including vivid imagery, alliteration, and repetition to emphasize her thoughts and feelings about dying. Dickinson began suffering from depression, anxiety, and agoraphobia at a very young age and lived the rest of her life with these mental illnesses. During her lifetime, she wrote…

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem “ Spirits of the Dead.” The reason that it is important is if one person dies, his or her spirit will come out of the body. Although, it can help by reading what the poem means, and what it stands for. This paper is being written by Edgar A. Poe. He wrote this before his death, and wanted to show with no emotion. The people will affect a reader by emotions, but in the “ Spirits of the Dead” poem , it is unenjoyable, depressed, and devastating feeling. Why everyone…