Writer Essays

305 Reasons to Love Emily Dickinson Poem #305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been— The Mind is smooth—no Motion— Contented as the Eye Upon the Forehead of a Bust— That knows—it cannot see— Dickinson’s poetic accomplishment was recognized during her […]

Death is a popular theme in poetry and is present in both Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Night”. However, although both poems deal with death, they have distinct differences. While Frost’s poem depicts a person on horseback stopping to appreciate the surrounding […]

Losing My Religion: Exposing the Hypocrisy of Religion in Emily Dickinson’s “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-“ Who does society consider the faithful? Is it the man on the street corner screaming for everyone to repent their sins before the apocalypse? Is it the zealot who straps a bomb to his body, and walks […]

In the poem 764 of The Norton Anthology which starts “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun -” (line 1), Emily Dickinson takes on the role of a married woman of the nineteenth century whose husband owns and completely controls her. The woman, whose voice Dickinson wrote from, reflects on the importance of her […]

The line “Then there’s a pair of us! ” uses colloquial terms, highlighting that there is an ease of speech between the reader and speaker. Their unity is also consolidated, as there is an omission of hyphens. “Don’t tell! They advertise- you know! ” also uses contractions and Informal language, as well as assumes knowledge […]

Despite the existence of different Deist doctrines, they all share a common belief that our Earth was intricately created by a God, resembling a blind watchmaker. This implies that the Earth’s creator accomplished this feat without consciousness but with impeccable perfection. Evidence of Dickinson’s religious conviction can be found in Thomas Paine’s book Life and […]

The primary emphasis is placed on the distinctions discovered between the two poems. When comparing the poems by Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, it is evident that the first poem is more comprehensible than the second. The structure of the first poem consists of 4 stanzas with fewer lines, while the second poem spans across […]

Dickinson uses diction to outline the idea that the act of death is unjust because God uses his superior being to manipulate the defenseless human soul. Dickinson’s first instance of diction is, “He stuns you by degrees-“(4). The idea of God stunning by degrees suggests the bringing about of the iciness of death. That God […]

Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be described as ambiguous and enigmatic. The description given in the question is much like Dickinson’s poetry, and hence, itself requires some interpretaion. The main subjective part of the question is the ‘jewel-like world’, which I will adress later. But, more prominently is the fact that Dickinson’s poetry is the anthetis […]

-1- Throughout Emily Dickinson’s poetry there are three main themes that she addresses: death, love, and nature; as well as the impact of “the word”. When discussing these themes she followed her lifestyle and broke away from traditional forms of writing and wrote with an intense energy and complexity never seen before and rarely seen […]

The speaker in Emily Dickenson’s “My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums” is very torn between rejoicing in the victory in the battlefield, and the regret they feel for the battles losers. The narrator feels pride at first, as shown in line 1 and the title’s use of the word “Triumph” yet that pride quickly turns […]

Emily Dickinson was a phenomenal writer in her time, with an array of different literature pieces. In “The Last Night that She lived” Dickinson writes about the death of a girl, we are unknown of who this girl is to her. The girl dying may be perceived as Emily Dickinson herself, looking into the future […]

Perhaps it is because I’ve lost so many loved ones recently, but I have been thinking about the value of life. Recently I asked some companions at dinner how they wanted to be remembered. I notice reporters always ask older celebrities that question which means I know you won’t be around much longer so what […]

Dickinson’s poetry has been interpreted a number of different ways. To some she may come across suicidal, to others depressed, or even philosophical to a number of readers. In her poem number 347 her depression and feelings of inadequacy are clear. In this poem Dickinson is a diva and is like any other person, scared […]

“You left me” is an intriguingly concise poem by Emily Dickinson. Like many of her other works, the poem follows a tight ballad meter—iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The rhyme is also very precise in the second and fourth lines of each stanza creating an easy to follow flow to the poem. This pattern gives […]

In the poem “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church,” Emily Dickinson expresses the feeling that everybody practices their faith and religion in a different way. The narrator of this poem portrays the idea of self practice. Being able to completely understand and interpret the meaning of this piece of poetry was not a short […]

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”, is a joyful and lighthearted poem. In the poem, Dickinson continuously compares the effect nature has on her to the effect alcohol has on her. Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses being “drunk” as a metaphor for how exciting and intoxicating nature is to her. This poem […]

Both poets, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, are writers of the same time; the Romantic one. Yet, even when they lived during the same era, the natures, as well as the looks of their poems are very much different. Emily Dickinson is a more private poet. When comparing “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” and […]

Throughout Lord of the Flies, William Golding implies many themes and symbols represented through the actions of the boys and the events taking place. Some of the themes are friendship, the need for social order, and loneliness and the need for companionship. A couple of the symbols are leadership (Ralph) and spirituality (Simon). Poems that […]

Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun” is a multi-faceted poem with distinct feminist and artistic themes. Despite Dickensons’s unique position as the only nineteenth-century American female poet to transcend typical sentimental poetry, her work indicates a strong feminine theme. This atypical perspective of feminism is also apparent in the aforementioned poem. […]

“Figure of Speech” is a literary term that encompasses several poetic devices. It is defined as a “word or group of words utilized to underscore a specific idea or feeling” (Encarta). The application of figures of speech in “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns, “The Victory” by Anne Stevenson, and […]

For me, the study of Emily Dickinson’s poetry was the most memorable part of poetry this year. The fact that all of Dickinson’s poetry is highly personal and filled with meaning and sentiment adds to the enjoyment of this renowned poets work. Dickinson is a highly elusive poet and we are given the knowledge of […]