William Austin Dickinson

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…

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 feelings of sadness, isolation, and reaction to the changing atmosphere during the Civil War Era and Industrial Revolution. In these three poems, Dickinson uses natural elements as metaphors as…

In the poem “Elliptical” author Harryette Mullen used many poem elements to develop her unique writing. Some of Mullen’s techniques were a shift and an important type of connotation. These were used to develop not only her point of view but the message she wanted to give the readers. The theme ,or message, Mullen portrayed in this poem can be separation or prejudice. Although the title does not directly refer to this, it does connect to how the author justifies her message. Mullen also uses…

Dickinson and Her Obsession with Death Throughout much of her life Emily Dickinson showed signs of anxiety and obsession. This charming timid young woman retreated to her room and often never left, spending her days locked away writing poetry. When she died she left many works about many different things, but just one look at Emily Dickinson's poems reveals that death is her principal subject, this young spinster had an obsession with it. Other nineteenth-century poets, such as Whitman and…

William Faulkner’s symbolic use of death in A Rose for Emily conveys how the past is representative of death. Throughout the story death is a prevalent theme consequently, Faulkner uses many symbols to carry his message. The symbolic use of death as a theme depicts the struggles and resistance of change, illustrating how conformity may result in an early death even while still living. The resistance towards change signifies the limbo between the past and present much like life and death. The use…

Have you ever grown accustomed to the dark, Not literally but physically? Or have you ever gotten your eye put out not physically but literally? Well in We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson the writer is talking about growing accustomed to the dark and In Before I Got My Eyes Put Out the writer is talking about losing her vision. In We Grow Accustomed To The Dark the writer says how you can find light or how light will come . everyone in life has been through a dark time…

like the Heft of Cathedral Tunes –” [lines 3-4]. The caesura aren’t occurring too often and they are equally spread apart in the first stanza, indicating that the speaker is approaching her death. As the poem continues, the caesura continue, as Dickinson writes that “None may teach it – Any –” [line 9]. In the third stanza, caesura occur more, they are more frequent, with twice as many caesura as the first stanza, and their appearance is more scattered. This shows that nearing the end, the…