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Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, 2006.
A look at how both Emily Dickinson's poem, "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" and Langston Hughes' poem, "Mulatto" reflect the changes that were taking place in American society during the times the poems were written.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how Emily Dickinson's poem, "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church", and Langston Hughes' poem, "Mulatto", both reflect changes happening in each poet's generation even though the two poems are drastically different. The paper explains that Hughes' poem touches on the changes in the views and attitudes of African-Americans and whites in post-civil war America, while Dickinson poem touches on the theme of religion in her poem, showing how times have changed the way that faith and religious practice are viewed. In an analysis of Langston Hughes' poem, "Mulatto", the paper explains that the poem expresses the immense anger through images of rape, oppression, and mixed emotion. The very title and the indecision over being half white and half black represent many of the key issues in prejudice that were apparent in the early 1900s in America. That time was also complicated for people who were mulatto, like the author of this poem.
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Poetry by Emily Dickinson, 2006.
Analyzes two separate poems by American poet, Emily Dickinson.
1,351 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper shows that Emily Dickinson's individualistic style of diction, as it relates to her poems, "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" and "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," is indicative of her assimilation of her context, her time and the value of the idealistic nature of language and belief. The paper argues that Dickinson is clearly a reflection of her time and her works are a reflection of her diversity and genius.
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"Dickinson conveys meaning beyond her initial message by redefining words from her trusted lexicon, even to the point of bawdry, some would say. There is no message of choice or loss within her works that is not relished by her wordplay. To her the divine is associated not with a future promise but with the ability to keep learning and growing as an individual and a poet."
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Emily Dickinson's Self-Exploitation, 2008.
An analysis of the theme of self-exploitation within the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
3,131 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 91.95
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This paper discusses how the vision of Emily Dickinson's poetry is focused on the identification of man's relation with reality mainly in the pursuit of the meaning of death. It looks at how the unique quality of her poetic vision is constituted through what the author defines as self-exploitation, which is completed by the strategies of self-denial, "microscopic" perspective, "smallness" and cyclic vision. In particular, the paper identifies what Emily Dickinson's self-exploitation is by explaining her poetic strategies presented and concretized in poems, and then, in each case, discusses why she uses these strategies to gain a vision of eternity and the meaning of death as the key to man's relation with reality.
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"Finally, Emily Dickinson's self-exploitation is arranged as the stages from self through nature and death to eternity and, in the process, her efforts to destruct the barriers of circumference and to go out the limited world of self in order to gain the vision of reality and eternity are revealed painfully with unconventionally restricted formation of poetry. Seemingly, compared to the vision of Christianity which is toward the world of God, Emily Dickinson's vision is fatally attached to this world of man and his existential life. Unfortunately, her ambitious desire toward "the final Circumference" just arrives at the intoxication and the intoxicated ecstasy of eternity only comes from her temporary discovery of man's real life, reality and also the ultimate reality, the ultimacy, as shown in J. 214: "When "Landlords" turn the / drunken Bee / Out of the Foxglove's door / When Butterflies renounces their "drams" / I shall but drink the more!" It is resulted from her tragic inversed vision and man's existential limitation. "
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Emily Dickinson, 2001.
This paper looks at Emily Dickinson's power as a poet
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper takes a brief look at brief look at the poetic technique of Emily Dickinson. By analyzing some of her poems, we are shown her attitude towards nature, death, pain and religion.
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"Emily Dickinson was a poet whose power stemmed from her ability to present the simplest scenes of life shrouded in imagery. On first reading her poems would be natural and meaningless but a deeper look would reveal the intricacies present within them that had a lot of meanings and revealed a multitude of themes that evoked images of the unseen. "
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Emily Dickinson and Her Search for Answers, 2002.
The following paper is a summary of the works of Emily Dickinson and an analytical view on her search for answers to death and immortality.
1,925 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 61.95
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The following paper examines how the imagination was used as a tool to discover whatever Emily might have been able to find about life after death. Emily?s views changed from poem to poem depending on her mood and what she wanted to believe at the time. This paper shows how Emily Dickinson felt about the uncertainty and uncontrollable aspect of death, with reference to her poetry.
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"Emily Dickinson is one of the most mysterious, yet profound poets in history. She was considered the poet of dread. Clark Griffith a well-known critic of Emily?s poetry says: ?Emily knew no aspect of existence which did not, sooner or later, strike her as fundamentally dreadful.? He believed her vision was one of hell. Emily lived a very secluded life. The only time she left her home for any length of time was to attend a term at Mt. Holyoke College. She spoke to visitors through a screen, or from an adjoining room in her home. The importance of this aspect of her life is that this seclusion was a necessary condition in the creativity of her poetry. Emily?s dreadful poetry many times had themes such as death and immortality. She was obsessed with these subjects and died still searching for answers to them. She admits her preoccupation with the thought of dying and with the grave ??when the Grave and I-/ Have sobbed ourselves almost to sleep,/ Our only Lullaby.? (Richard Chase) Here she is saying that her thoughts of death are the only thoughts that put her to sleep. I am going to show through two of her most analyzed poems how she tried to analyze death and immortality."
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Humour in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, 2007.
This paper discusses Emily Dickinson's use of humour and joking in her poetry.
5,149 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 128.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that Emily Dickinson employs humour thematically in her poetry, but she also constructs the form of some of her poems in such a way as to mirror the rhythm and meter of jokes. The writer also points out that in some of Dickinson's poetry, form becomes an oblique way of articulating an often subversive truth. Dickinson also employs humour or the theme of joking and jest in her poetry thematically, going so far as to use the idea of joking as the central theme of several poems. The writer maintains that humour seems to be for Dickinson a way of articulating a subversive truth that often stems from relationships of power. The writer concludes that Dickinson's use of form and theme tie together humour theory and feminist scholarship to create a poetics of subversion through slantness that has perhaps not been attended to with the depth it warrants. The writer further suggests that brevity, as we know, is the soul of Dickinson, but wit is her weapon.
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"That "I know that He exists" contains throughout the poem the language of finance is, as we will see later in "Surgeons must be very careful" a way of further contextualizing power relations in terms of gender. The language of finance is decidedly male. As close as Dickinson was to her father and brother and their affairs, however, Dickinson would have been well-versed in such terminology. Economic terms appear throughout the poem. In the last two lines of the first stanza, "He has hid his rare life / From our gross eyes." "Gross" can have several connotations, all of which work in "I know that He exists." At first without reading through the entire poem "gross" seems to refer to size. "Our gross eyes" paints a picture of childlike, wide-eyed wonder that accompanies meeting the awesome. "Gross" could also function as an indication of number; "our gross eyes" could be not just "our" eyes in the sense of each of us as the singular reader, but instead all of us as a mass noun. In the context of the other financial terminology used in the poem, however, it seems as if "gross" functions in the sense of what Webster's defines as "before any deductions" as in "gross income." The "gross eyes" of the living in the poem have not yet met the point at which the deduction has taken place. The metaphorical deduction takes place at the point of death."
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, 1999.
An analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetry, including a detailed discussion of major themes, style, language and poetics used.
4,605 words (approx. 18.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 119.95
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This paper examines in depth the works of Emily Dickinson, a nineteenth century poet and recluse. It includes a discussion of the biographical details in Emily's life and how her life experiences shaped her writings with such themes as nature, loss and love and her poetic tecniques, language and form. Eleven of her poems are reviewed, including "Because I Could not Stop for Death", "I Know Some Lonely Houses off the Road", "A Bird Came Down the Walk", and "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain".
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"Her shifting attitude towards immortality is paralleled by her ambivalence about the existence of a god. Although she continued to search, Dickinson's poems reveal that she never rests comfortably in belief and certainty. She struggles for proof of god and eternal life in her interpretations of experience and in her participation in the natural world. In the end, however, the skeptic and the believer simultaneously characterise Dickinson's stance."
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, 2004.
Examines the themes in the poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death?, ?I Felt a Funeral in My Brain?, and ?I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died?, written by Emily Dickinson.
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This paper examines the themes of death and dying in three of Emily Dickinson's poems, as well as Dickinson's style and she technique she used in the poems.
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"In her popular poem, ?Because I Could Not Stop for Death,? Dickinson provides us with an excellent example of her unique perspective regarding death. This lyric poem reads well and the rhyming structure of it seems to contradict its serious subject matter. It also presents us with an image of the poet. The tone in this poem is significant because the poem does not express fear or melancholy. Another interesting aspect of this poem is point of view. Interestingly, the deceased poet writes it. This perspective allows the poet to view death and life in a completely different way."
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Emily Dickinson?s Poetry, 2002.
Examines the use of insects and little creatures in poems by American poet, Emily Dickinson.
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The paper shows that one type of image that American poetess Emily Dickinson uses again and again is that of the insect or other tiny creature, with different insects being used as metaphors for love and sexual relations. The paper explains that the insect or other tiny creatures, such as the worm, seem to represent nature for Dickinson and particularly procreation and regeneration, perhaps because of a perceived role by insects in spreading seeds of plants and trees. Focusing on her poem "In Winter in My Room", a work which also reflects Dickinson's self-discovery and use of her immediate surroundings and experiences, the paper shows that Dickinson uses these images in different ways in her poetry.
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"Much of the myth of Emily Dickinson centers on the fact that she lived most of her life in one house, and the concept of home is central in her work and is also embodied with her ideas of love; love for family, love for nature, and love for life. Dickinson's image of home is turned into an image of herself--her home is her world, and she has a perception of the architecture of the home that is akin to her perception of the architecture of the body. The home and the elements that make up the home, including its garrets, chambers, rooms, corridors, doorways, and windows, project the form of the poet's mind and bring the reader closer to Dickinson's evolving sense of "place," as person and poet. Other images objectify her inner life, including all of her major concerns--self, family, love, loneliness, madness, renunciation, nature, God, death, immortality, eternity, and poetry itself. Here again, the "home" is invaded by, and even improved by, the role of the insect, representing the regenerative element in nature."
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Emily Dickinson's Poetry, 2006.
An analysis of the theme of death as a leitmotif in Emily Dickinson's poetry.
4,954 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 125.95
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The following paper concentrates on the variety of ways Emily Dickinson's expresses her thoughts and feelings about death in her poetry. One central focus of the analysis is to point out Dickinson's originality and creativity emerging from a gloomy topic. It looks at how Dickinson does not only reflect on death, she presents the intrepid self experimenting with the idea of its own cessation. The paper also provides short comments on some stylistic devices in order to clarify the interdependence between Dickinson's ideas and her use of language.
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Introduction
Death Understood as Eternal Sleep
Between Life and Death: Death from the Perspective of the Dying
Death as Emphasis on Love
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"Emily Dickinson is recognized today as one of America's greatest poets. Her reputation rests partly on a body of poems that forcefully portray death. Dickinson's death-poetry is marked by both the poet's enthusiasm and her willpower to face, grasp, and describe the circumstances of dying instead of evading the dreadful theme that often eludes language. Moreover, exploring the theme of death from various viewpoints, Dickinson appears to transcend a boundary that is impossible to penetrate in reality. Notwithstanding, she managed to remain the observer and recorder of her considerations and emotions."
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Emily Dickinson, 2007.
This paper examines the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, a quiet and reclusive female.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The paper discusses how the style and content of Dickinson's poems are unique to her life-long torment and struggle with pain, sadness and depression. The paper describes Dickinson's lack of a relationship with her mother and lack of interaction with anyone else. The paper looks at the psychological theories of Melanie Klein and Julia Kristeva who attribute Dickinson's poetic greatness to her lack of an emotional bond with her mother while still a child. The paper concludes that if Emily Dickinson would have had a strong mother-daughter bond, or if she had been a mother herself, her poetic style and content would have been radically different.
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"Although all humans experience feelings of pain, sadness and depression, females experience these emotions at a different level then males. The reason for this discrepancy is varied and may include such factors as the status of women in society, the role of motherhood, and differing hormonal balances. This role of pain, sadness and depression greatly influences the way women see the world and interact with it. Furthermore, it greatly effects their emotional and artistic expressions."
"One of the great poets of our time is Emily Dickinson, a quiet and reclusive female. Her poetry stands out from her male counterparts of her era because of its unique style and ability to express these gendered emotions of pain, sadness and depression."
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Emily Dickinson?s Humor, 2005.
This paper discusses the humor that can be found in the poetry of the 19th century poet, Emily Dickinson.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that, even though people often think of Emily Dickinson in such terms as reclusive, despondent and unrequited love; parody, sarcasm and humor are very evident in Dickinson's works. The author points out that Dickinson often uses devices such as irony and satire for comic relief as well as for getting quickly across a point in her short, but significant pieces. The paper relates that Dickinson's topics run the gambit from politics and religion to making fun of the day-to-day inconsequential problems of life as seen in her poem "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?".
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""I'm Nobody" clearly demonstrates Dickinson's satire. It has been said that this poem is most likely about her inability to achieve recognition as a poet. However, especially because she kept to herself--actually enjoyed isolation--she probably would have been unhappy if fame had come her way. How horrible it would be, she relates, if you are famous and have to continually be ogled and followed by admirers. This is a problem, in fact, that most celebrities and other known individuals such as politicians have today. They cannot do anything without the press knowing it."
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Death as Perceived by Emily Dickinson, 2004.
Examines how American poet, Emily Dickinson, presents images of death through her works.
2,526 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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Emily Dickinson?s approach to the concept of death is haunting, for it provides us with a unique point of view. Her poetry is extremely personal and allows us to discern much from a psychoanalytic perspective. The paper shows that Dickinson's attempts to come to terms with her own death illustrate her courage and curiosity. Although she never ?solves? the mystery of death, her observations are astute, and her attempts to grasp such a solemn subject demonstrate her seriousness as a thinker and a poet. The paper shows that Dickinson?s obsession with death led her to write powerful poetry that not only attempts to solve life?s greatest mysteries, but also gives us insight into her character. The paper uses several of Dickinson's poems as references.
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"In the poem, ?I Felt a Funeral in My Brain,? Dickinson also explores the possibility of an afterlife. The analogy is the obvious funeral in her brain and the funeral service itself. This is quite an unusual poem because it is written after her death has occurred and her body is placed in the coffin. This is an excellent example of Dickinson delving into the world of possibility. She is able to confront the anxiety she has toward death by imagining herself dead, yet conscious. This mood of this poem is macabre in that it represents a type of desperation that cannot be avoided. That consciousness is a possibility after death, is quite a unique approach that obviously helps Dickinson face her fears about death, though not so pleasantly. Indeed, Dickinson may bring herself face to face with the solitary nothingness of life after death, but the act in and of itself is no reward."
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Emily Dickinson, 2002.
A discussion of the poetess, Emily Dickinson, including a brief overview of some of her poems.
874 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper presents a biographical synopsis of the poetess, Emily Dickinson. Her upbringing and education are mentioned, as are the significant relationships she had in her life. Several of her literary works are described, illustrating her poetic style. The paper provides a brief comparison of Dickinson's poetry to that of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe.
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"Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but returned home after one year. She continued to live in her family home with her younger sister, mother and father. Her brother and his wife lived next door. Dickinson rarely left her house or received visitors. Those whom she did associate with, however, had a powerful affect on her poetry.
It is speculated that the two most influential people in her life were Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia, and her sister-in-law, Susan. In 1860, Wadsworth left for the West Coast, causing Dickinson terrible grief. Afterward, she lived in isolation from the rest of the world. Despite this, she enthusiastically continued correspondences and avidly remained au currant with popular published works."
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Emily Dickinson's Poetry, 2004.
Examines how American poet Emily Dickinson made use of imagery in her work.
1,456 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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Emily Dickinson is often thought of as "America's Poet" and during her short life, she created an enormous amount of poetry. One of the most important literary devices Dickinson used in her work was imagery, and she used it in a variety of unique ways to make her poetry more enduring, more meaningful, and extremely compelling. This paper discusses the use of many different forms of imagery in her poetry. It quotes from Dickinson's poetry to provide examples.
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"However, circles are not the only imagery Dickinson employed in her works. Nature was a common theme for her poetry, and she used many diverse images of nature to convey her meanings and thoughts. Flowers form a large part of this natural imagery, and one expert notes there are over 400 references to flowers or their parts in her poetry (Eberwein 115-116). She used flower imagery as she used other imagery in her works, to denote a wide variety of themes, from God to bliss, women, and some even believe female genitalia. Poem 137 shows a bit of this erotic and sensual imagery conjured up by the daisies in the verse. "Flowers -- Well -- if anybody / Can the ecstasy define -- / Half a transport -- half a trouble -- / With which flowers humble men: / Anybody find the fountain / From which floods so contra flow -- / I will give him all the Daisies / Which upon the hillside blow" (Dickinson)."
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