William Austin Dickinson

there any evidence of after life in her poems? To Emily Dickinson, death is an ultimate experience. It reveals the ultimate reality and truth. It…

“The Moon is distant from the Sea” by Emily Dickinson is about a strained relationship between a man and a woman through analogy. Dickinson does this by equating them to the moon and the tides of the sea. The woman is also referred to as an “ Amber Hand” which is a description for an angel. The woman -the speaker- far from the man but still she guides him. She an angel with her light guiding him as if he were a young boy needing guidance through life. The man never missing what happens or what…

a new form of writing commonly known as “modern poetry.” During this period arose two great poets; Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, who in time were labeled as the ‘father and mother of American poetry.’ The true singularity shown by each of these two poets comes out in there true sense of privacy, or lack-there-of, juxtaposed with the persona that is given off through their writing. Dickinson who wrote to be private and gives off through her material a feeling of this privacy, had no intent of…

Emily Dickinson was born into a rich and powerful Christian family with firm beliefs. She lived in the nineteenth century, from 1830-1886. She grew up the town of Amherst in Massachusetts. Dickinson was educated; which was not that common for a woman who lived in during the era of the industrial revolution. She did some traveling throughout Massachusetts in her earlier years of life. However, toward the late 1860s she kept herself secluded from society. Many let their imaginations run wild about…

Choosing to use a simile in the first line of the Poem, the sonneteer characterizes death like a wave. When people think of death a feeling of sadness floods upon them just as a wave floods the beach with water. On line five of the sonnet, the poet chooses to give death a gender therefore personifying it. The author chose to give death a gender because he felt that by giving death an intangible concept a gender, he makes death a tangible concept and easier to connect with. By doing so, he then…

Emily Dickinson and John Donne might not seem to have very much in common. They were two poets who lived almost two hundred years apart, on different continents, what could they possibly have in common? However, their poetry holds a common theme. Emily Dickinson had a fascination with death and wrote many of her poems on the subject of death and dying. Likewise, John Donne wrote a few poems about death but, unlike Dickinson, his poems held more of a religious perspective. In particular, death…

composed of two sestets. Emily Dickinson constructs the poem in so that the first sestet paves the way for the discussion of the second sestet. Instead of pitting science and nature against each other, Dickinson uses the structure of the poem to link them. The first and the second sestet seem to build on different ideas at first, but, by the end of the poem, they transform into justifications for the existent complementary relationship between nature and science. Dickinson uses these two sestets…

pondered what occurs to the human soul after death. Death also can create a wide range of emotions in both the person dying and those who are close to the dying, as portrayed by Dylan Thomas in his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” and Emily Dickinson in her poem “479.” In both works, each author uses vivid imagery and a specific stanza structure to question the meaning of death and how human nature either embraces or opposes Death himself. In both “Do not go gentle into that good…

Respecting the dead 151,600 people die every single day, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Both common and natural, death is something that has an impact on everyone at some point in their life. In the books “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, death frequently occurs and impacts the characters and their story. The dead deserve respected regardless of the way they lead their life or die for the sake of the family members and loved ones, all…

In the poem I Heard A Fly Buzz, the author, Emily Dickinson, uses various literary techniques, including visual imagery, personification, similes and metaphors, and unique syntax, to comment on how trivialities can pose as a distraction, even in major moments like death. Dickinson begins the poem with a seemingly insignificant phrase-”I heard a Fly buzz”- but adds “-when I died.” Dickinson’s unique syntax consists of two dashes that create a pause between these phrases and the next line, which…