Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R. W. Franklin. Variorum ed. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1998.…
Berkove, Lawrence I. "The Emily Dickinson Journal." The Emily Dickinson Journal 10 (2001): 1-8. Project MUSE. Web. 20 Nov. 2011. <http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/emily_dickinson_journal/v010/10.1berkove.html>.…
Emily Dickinson, a chief figure in American literature, wrote hundreds of poems in her lifetime using unusual syntax and form. Several if not all her poems revolved around themes of nature, illness, love, and death. Dickinson’s poem, Because I could not stop for Death, a lyric with a jarring volta conflates several themes with an air of ambiguity leaving multiple interpretations open for analysis. Whether death is a lover and immortality their chaperone, a deceiver and seducer of the speaker to lead her to demise, or a timely truth of life, literary devices such as syntax, selection of detail, and diction throughout the poem support and enable these different understandings to stand alone.…
Two of Emily Dickinson’s poems, “Unto My Books So Good To Turn” and “Contrast”, show different sides of her unusual personality. Ironically, both works choose encounters with people as opportunities to provide glimpses into a lonely, reclusive life.…
Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson, in the first two stanzas, eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”, “it was not night”, “it was not frost”, “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch, as Dickinson compares tangible sensations that the body normally experiences to her tumultuous emotions. In the third stanza, Dickinson synthesizes all of the possibilities she eradicated in the previous two stanzas, ominously stating that her condition “tasted like…
I. Emily Dickinson was an introvert who wrote poems about life, love and death. Dickinson showed her feelings of death and Desire using unusual scenario’s that cause the reader to stretch their thinking and go beyond superficial thought. Emily Dickinson uses imagery, Form, and settings in her poems in “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died” to set the tone of the poem.…
After studying a bunch of Emily Dickinson’s poems and learning a little bit of background about her, I have discovered that I really appreciate the complexity of her work, and when I first read Marilyn Nelson Waniek’s poem, “Emily Dickinson’s Defunct,” a poem written about Dickinson, I found it to be very interesting. It was fascinating, one, because it valued Dickinson and her work, and two, because it reminded me of another one of my favorite poems, “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” by Billy Collins. The reason it reminded me of Collins’ poem was because of Waniek’s allusions to Dickinson’s poetry throughout the poem, which Collins did a lot in his poem. There are many aspects of this poem that interest me but the top three are the speed of the poem, the many allusions to Dickinson’s work, and the bluntness, comicality, and contradiction of how Waniek describes Dickinson.…
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who was not recognized as such until after her death. She lived in a world of isolation not answering to her front door when people came by. The vast majority of her poems express themes of immortality, love, and death. Prior to her isolation she has been known for falling in love with men that were married, some of which she had committed affairs with. Emily Dickinson was also said to go long periods of time just wearing one color such as white. The movement of transcendentalism impacts her beliefs and values.…
If one has ever felt completely infatuated, this short poem, “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson is relatable to others I’m sure. Her type of expressing herself and everything that needs to be conveyed through comparisons is remarkable. Through the allegories in the poem, we can suspect that once this special someone is found, there is nothing more fulfilling than being with them.…
Have you ever had a night that is so unforgettable and wondrous that you often look back on it and wish for such a time to return? This is the case for the speaker in Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” The person who wrote this obviously longs to get back with the person with whom they spent these wild nights. The poem cannot be read in a literal sense, the reader must look past the literal meaning into a more figurative and symbolic meaning. In this poem that deeper meaning is of a sexual fantasy.…
Many know of Emily Dickinson’s reclusive behavior, but very few know about her brief engagement to George Gould, a student at Amherst College. Unfortunately, her wealthy father broke their engagement off because he was just a poor student. It is believed that this disappointment triggered her initial withdrawal from society and the start of her life as a writer. She lived without marrying and devoted a significant amount of time to writing poetry and letters during a time now known as the American Romanticism movement. This movement affected Emily’s writing and is evident in much of her poetry. Emily Dickinson displays many of the characteristics of the American Romantic period in her poem “Why do I Love You, sir?”…
Baid, Rashmi. "Summary of “Why do I love” You, Sir? by Emily Dickinson." essay. 2013.…
Emily Dickinson talks about an undying love between her and this man throughout this poem. The two are so in love that, even though the man in the relationship has died, the love Dickinson has for him will carry on forever. Dickinson expresses a deep passion, and a genuine sense of what it is to love and to lose, someone you care about. The two are supposedly riding in this carriage slowly and calmly, making no haste to get to where they are going. Dickinson conveys a feeling of sadness, and of heartbreak from losing a loved one. They embark on a long and peaceful journey, that at the end holds death, and the silent whisper of a love that is so fierce it will carry on in eternity. The theme of this poem is about a journey shared between two soul mates.…
« The Heart asks Pleasure – First - » is a poem written by American poet Emily Dickinson. The two quatrains composing it explore various themes, some of which are very much present in her other works, such as death, and love. The deceptively simple nature of the poem makes it very much open to a variety of interpretations, all in a seemingly universal register, which Dickinson so often uses in her poetry. Nevertheless, the concept regarding the progression of pain and suffering appears to be dominant here.…
Dickinson was a writer of 19th century who grows up in social disconnection from a youthful age. Her grip of the nature which go alone with her as she nurtured, isolated from the world, is gotten to the frontline this work.…