William Austin Dickinson

During the mid 1800’s in the town of Amherst in Massachusetts, lived a woman would one day be known as one of the greatest poets of America. This woman was Emily Dickinson born to a prominent family attended Amherst Academy. Dickinson grew up as a social and outgoing girl, but as she approached her thirties she became more reclusive and spent most of her time locked away in her room. During this time she spent in her room she was able to write many very short poems. However, most of her poetry…

With nearly 2,000 published poems, Emily Dickinson has given all those that read her poetry a look into her individual way of thinking and analyzing her feelings. Dickinson’s poems show her seclusion from the outside world, which was very unheard of in the mid 1800’s. Due to Dickinson’s poetry style differing from other poets of her time, she became known as one of the most important and influential poets in American Literature. Emily Dickinson 's "The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise" and…

Born in 1830, Emily Dickinson is a poet whose “genius for metaphorical invention is scarcely inferior to that of Shakespeare.” (Hughes) But unlike other poets who experience life first-handed like Shakespeare, Emily spent her life mostly isolated from society. Since she did not have direct contact with the outside world, her experiences of life came mostly from the people surrounded her and books, and they, nevertheless, has tremendous influence on her work religiously and psychologically. On…

Hamlet’s monolog is one governed by rationality. It is a meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no…

The World’s Wife is based on intertextual webs and most of the poems take the form of a dramatic monologue. Duffy chooses to play the intertextual game in order to convey a certain message, to voice her ideas through historical, religious and mythical figures. She focuses on the marginalized, women in particular. Her trademark dramatic monologue is successfully employed in The World’s Wife (1999) in which, drawing on Greek mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, literature, history, and film,…

This essay will be written about the poems: La Belle Dame sans Merci, Once upon a time and Piano. All three of these poems have expressed feelings of despair. This essay will be comparing the poems and analysing the language for techniques such as language, form, structure and craft of the writer. The first Poem La Belle Made sans Merci is a ballad written by John Keats. The poem is written from the perspective of a man who meets a knight, waiting for his lover on the side of a hill. The poem…

“Hope” is the thing with feathers-- Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers in the year 1861. This poem is an extended metaphor transforming the word hope she uses, into a bird that is inside of every human. Hope and the bird are both symbols for something greater. They transform with each other and bring the reader the idea of hope in many forms. The idea of the poem is to exhibit hope as an aspect inside of us all that is powerful and inspiring. I would like to…

Sylvia Plath was an admired American poet during the 20th century, known for her confessional poems. Plath's poems had a common theme of morality and death. Plath excelled as a child and won many scholarships and contests, but faced difficulties in her home life after her father died. These difficulties affected Plath's mental state and her work greatly. In Plath's poem, “Daddy”, readers can see how her relationship with her father and other life experiences influenced the topics and themes of…

Loss is a very common theme for poetry which can be interpreted in many ways. Many poems/poets have different insights regarding loss creating a lot of variation in the theme. In this essay I will be exploring poems such as; “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning talking about the loss of the Dukes Duchess’, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti which talks about her and her partner when they are no longer together. Also I will be talking about a poem by Dylan Thomas which is often referred to as “Do…

In three literary works above talking about the same topic, that is DEATH. The word death in Because I Could Not For Death interprets as positive thing which refers to respect and reverence. It indicates from the word kindly and civility in poem. Dickinson in her poem in the first line of the first stanza states that she could not stop for the death. It means that she has no choice when she will die. Everyone will die but in different times and different ways. Death is not described as…