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Emily Dickinson
1,958 wordsEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the second of three children of Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson. Samuel Fowler Dickinson, her grandfather, had been one of the founders of Amherst College, and had built a mansion on Main Street, reputed to be the first brick house in Amherst, which became known in the family as the Homestead. (Godden, 7) Her father was, like his father before him, a lawyer. Emily's older brother Austin would be a lawyer as...
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II Emily Dickinson's Intentional Poems
11,417 wordsIAn outsider looking at the poetry of the United States sees mainly Walt Whitman's beard, with the sombre mask of Edgar Allan Poe looming immediately beyond it. He will be as familiar with both of these figures as though they were Europeans, compatriots even. I believe I have seen a Dutch translation of Leaves of Grass, while decades ago all declaimers made the raven caw, often in a typical Dutch idiom resembling poetry, as was acceptable at the time. If this outsider were to visit the local pub...
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Poetic Rhythm And Sense Devices
880 words"Because I Could Not Stop For Death:" Under the Microscope Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death", is an interesting composition of the English language which commands respect and critical examination. This literary work deals with mortality and retrospect of one's life. It begins with the speaker's recollection of the day she died, now viewed from the level of eternity. She is looking back on how things used to be, almost with a sense of completion, as if her life has come ...
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Poem's Nonetheless Emphatic Truth Claims
2,851 wordsAnthony Hecht Again, this poem has been read as an instance of Emily Dickinson's deliberate tact and poetic strategy "in a generation which did not permit her, without the ambiguity of the riddle, to 'tell the truth'... she early learned that 'success in circuit lies. ' " I cannot disprove that notion, nor do I feel obliged to; but the poem seems to me to have a good deal of religious significance that such a statement inclines altogether to flout: And it came to pass on the third day in the mor...
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Back From Death Into The Living World
4,088 wordsEmily Dickinson's world was her father's home and garden in a small New England town. She lived most of her life within this private world. Her romantic visions and emotional intensity kept her from making all but a few friends. Because of this life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time were. Her poems, carefully tied in packets, were discovered only after she had died. They reveal an unusual awareness of herself and her world, a shy but dete...
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Truth
822 wordsZ.A. Katz March 21, 2001 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant, by Emily Dickinson, is indeed a poem for eternity. From the very first reading, it moves as a hymn in this author's mind, The Doxology and We Gather Together immediately being hummed. The Doxology, written by the Chaplin to the Bishop of England's Westminster Cathedral for church services, carries the purpose of glorifying fidelity to one's conscience and garnering strength in one's convictions. We Gather Together is a prayer of than...
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Poems And Dickinson
8,065 wordsYV OR WINTERS The three poems which combine [Emily Dickinson's] greatest power with her finest execution are strangely on much the same theme, both as regards the idea embodied and as regards the allegorical embodiment /293/. They deal with the inexplicable fact of change, of the absolute cleavage between successive states of being, and it is not unnatural that in two of the poems this theme should be related to the theme of death. In each poem, seasonal change is employed as the concrete symbol...
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Dickinson's Child Speaker Surfaces Through A Voice
4,551 wordsAdrienne Rich Now, this poem partakes of the imagery of being "twice-born" or, in Christian liturgy, "confirmed"-and if this poem had been written by Christina Rossetti I would be inclined to give more weight to a theological reading. But it was written by Emily Dickinson, who used the Christian metaphor far more than she let it use her. This is a poem of great pride-not pridefulness, but self-confirmation-and it is curious how little Dickinson's critics, perhaps misled by her diminutives, have ...
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Turn To Success For Hope
1,181 wordsEmily Dickinson "Hope" is the Thing With Feathers- In "Hope" is the Thing With Feathers, she uses many of her techniques to make the poem more lively and fun to read. In this poem, Emily Dickinson uses an irregular rhyming scheme of "a bcb". This means that in each of the three stanzas, the second and the fourth line rhymes with each other. Along with her irregular rhymes, she uses irregular punctuation to direct her readers into certain flow of the poem. In this poem, she uses many hyphens to e...
