Essays on Emily Dickinson

“Emily Dickinson’s original approach to poetry results in startling and thought-provoking moments in her work” Give your response to the poetry of Emily Dickinson in the light of this statement. Support your points with suitable reference to her poems. Emily DIckinson is a wonderful, idiosyncratic poet, who’s original and powerful poetry is marked by startling…

“If You Were Coming in the Fall,” by Emily Dickinson, expresses how, for a lover, anticipation without certainty causes anguish and misery, contrasting imagery and rhythm in the first four and last stanzas. In the first four stanzas, the imagery, repetition of words, and ballad meter invoke an illusion that dramatizes the insignificance of time….

   Literature Both William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson may be considered “nature” poets in that each of these writers sought to find symbols and themes in nature which could be used to express emotions and idea which related to the human psyche. Both poets perceived a connection between the human soul and nature. In Dickinson’s poem “The…

Emily Dickinson spent a large portion of he life in isolation. While others concerned themselves with normal daily activities, Emily was content to confine herself to her house, her garden, and her poetry. Due to her uncommon lifestyle, she was considered odd and was never respected as the great poet she is now recognized as….

Exegesis, from the ancient Greek ex (out) and hegesthai (lead), implies a desire to lead, through analysis, out of chaos or the unknown. A skilled exegete uses every clue possible to unlock or demystify what, initially, confounds. Emily Dickinson’s work is renown to be difficult, even inaccessible. The great body of critical attention written about…

Death; termination of vital existence; passing away of the physical state. Dying comes along with a pool of emotions that writers have many times tried to explain. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two pioneer poets from the Romantic Era, that introduced new, freer styles of writing to modern poetry at the time. Both Whitman…

Discuss the poem It Feels a Shame to be Alive, by Emily Dickonson in conjuction with Jay Parini’s statement “poetry gives voice to what is not usually said” The American Civil War was one of the most violent eras of American history. It was during this period that the poems written by Emily Dickinson carry…

Emily Dickinson’s “The Goal” discusses her theory that each human being lives each day striving to obtain one specific goal. She theorizes that each individual longs to fulfill one specific achievement whether “expressed” to others or is “still”  and locked into the individual’s heart. Dickinson says that it is an inevitable part of human nature…

Belonging is an inherent part of the human condition. It enables an individual to gain a sense of connection within themselves and to the external world. In essence, to belong is to be human. These ideas can be explored through the poetry if Emily Dickinson. In her poem, “this is my letter to the world,”…

I Heard a Fly Buzz – when I died             Pictures portray Emily Dickinson as a seemingly Puritan looking frail young woman with pale skin and a tightly drawn mouth.  Her portraits never exhibit any trace of life or happiness, much as her actual life may have been – empty, sad, and alone, waiting for…