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        <title><![CDATA[Whenever I read this poem, I cannot escape the fact that Dickinson seems...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whenever I read this poem, I cannot escape the fact that Dickinson seems to be making a strong indictment about those groups of people who are deemed "popular" and "accepted" by the social forces.  Being a teacher, I cannot help to identify the poem with the social forces that seem to dominate adolescence.  While this might not have been the direct purpose in her writing, one can see much in the way of parallels in both.  There is a social...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Dickenson's purpose in writing her poem, "I'm Nobody"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Dickenson's purpose in writing her poem, "I'm Nobody"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:36:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In my mind, the most interesting element about this poem would be the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In my mind, the most interesting element about this poem would be the imagery employed regarding death.  Dickinson's conception of death through her mental pictures is not a pain- ridden or darkly malevolent force.  Rather, it is akin to a warm bath, or something that is approachable.  The word "kindly" helps to convey this tone in line 2, and the term "civility" in describing death's approach in line 8.  The different settings that the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 03:08:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the first stanza, she is saying that she was too busy to slow down to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the first stanza, she is saying that she was too busy to slow down to die but she died anyway. In the second stanza, she is saying that she had to slow down. She had to stop working and stop having fun. Then she describes the places they passed by and what she saw there. (The reader of the poem realises what she lost when she died.) In the last stanza, she says that it has been centuries since she died. She realizes now that it will be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:09:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please Explain Emily's poem "Because I coud not stop for death"?
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        <description><![CDATA[Please Explain Emily's poem "Because I coud not stop for death"?
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:42:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to what was already given as an answer, Emily Dickenson...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to what was already given as an answer, Emily Dickenson was a shut in. She lived in her bedroom, upstairs, fearing the outside. Perhaps this led to a hightened sense and a love of nature. She would roll up her poems, creating little scrolls tied up by ribbon and fill a basket with them. She would then lower the basket down, using a rope, to children down below. The children would take the poems in exchange for flowers. She...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:55:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Having had a strict Puritan education, Emily Dickinson was marked by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Having had a strict Puritan education, Emily Dickinson was marked by restraint; however, her poetry provided the outlet that her passions craved.  Influenced by the Transcendental and Romantic Movements, Dickinson's passions found their outlet in the wonders of Nature.  She perceived the relationships among all natural things.  One critic wrote that Dickinson

perceived the relationship between a drop of dew and a flood, between a grain...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:28:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of Nature in Emily Dickinson's poems?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of Nature in Emily Dickinson's poems?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:37:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This poem is such a contrast to another of Emily Dickenson's poems about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This poem is such a contrast to another of Emily Dickenson's poems about death, "Because I could not stop for death." In that poem, death is like a gallant visitor who sweeps the narrator's soul away on a majestic carriage ride into eternity.
No such pomp and circumstance exists in this poem. No. At the moment of death, with so much to be expected of this final moment of life, a distracting fly buzzed around in the room. How absurd... how...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:53:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would just like to add a couple ideas to what has already been...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would just like to add a couple ideas to what has already been presented.  Of all the things one expects at the time of death, a fly is certainly not part of the picture.  In life flies, with their incessant and annoying BUZZ (specifically mentioned in the poem) are a nuisance; they are also often attracted to things that are already dead.  Flies are also associated with Beelezebub as in "Lord of the Flies."  Another thing I'd rather not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:13:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem shows the duality of death, that death is most glorious and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem shows the duality of death, that death is most glorious and inglorious, that it is a physical means to a spiritual end, and it is associated with both Christ-like and carrion imagery.
Here's the poem:

I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the king Be witnessed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:15:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To me, the point of this poem is how easily we, as human beings, can be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To me, the point of this poem is how easily we, as human beings, can be distracted from what is important (or at least from what we are trying to concentrate on).
In this poem, the narrator is dying.  She knows he's dying and he's trying to get his will all settled and everything.  But in the middle of doing this, she's distracted by a fly.  And she keeps noticing the fly until she is dead.
So instead of paying attention to her will or to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:59:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning or the point of the poem "I heard a fly buzz when I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning or the point of the poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:40:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem 'a Bird came down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson can be compared...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem 'a Bird came down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson can be compared to Ted Hughes poem about thrushes. Both concern the two faces of Nature - and the contrast which brings about fear in humans. Here are some contrasts:
The bird's head is soft and feathery and the poet probably finds him sweet to look at - at first. Then she sees him do what he must do to get by in the dog-eat-dog environment of the natural world. Without compunction,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:39:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the direct contrasts between the speaker (human world) and the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the direct contrasts between the speaker (human world) and the bird (natural world) in the poem "A Bird Came down the Walk" ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:31:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I feel that in this particular poem Emily Dickinson is using irony...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I feel that in this particular poem Emily Dickinson is using irony toward being depressed. Her own life showed that she chose to live alone with her family and was very content doing so. She did not need to be center of attention or live her life in public (which was her choice).
Emily Dickinson did not need attention from the world as an adult and was to convey this readers of the poem.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:16:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson was born to a very properous family in Amherst, Mass in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson was born to a very properous family in Amherst, Mass in 1830. Her father was a lawyer an treasurer of Amherst college.
Emily attended Amherst academy and then later attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary fo about a year. She then returned to her father's home, leading a recluse life. Emily never married, she was very attached to her family and had a few close friends. She kept her relationships though writing. One of her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:58:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As an addition to the already given answer, I would like to make some...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As an addition to the already given answer, I would like to make some points about Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm nobody".
This poem is about a self-cancellation on both the social and the psychic level of the ego. Dickinson's poetic persona is always a protean. It changes from one poem to another, sometimes a bride, often a corpse and so on. In this poem, the persona is a stripping of the identitarian grab, which might be read as a radical...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It seems like the main idea in Dickinson's poem is aimed at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems like the main idea in Dickinson's poem is aimed at adolescents.  Describing Dickinson's poem could be done by displaying a high school lunchroom.  In this setting, so many are driven by wanting to be known as determined by to whom they speak, with whom they sit, how they carry themselves.  Those who engage in this practice seek to be "someone."  Dickinson's poem might apply to the handful who are seeking to escape this setting. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:10:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Emily Dickinson's poem 'I'm Nobody' the poet is speaking as a child...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Emily Dickinson's poem 'I'm Nobody' the poet is speaking as a child and uses a child's voice. She makes a statement about herself - a decision she has already come to - and then asks a seemingly ingenuous question 'Who are you?' This seems to reflect the innocence of childhood.
She wants to know whether the person she is questioning is like her a 'nobody' but the philosophical nature of the question belies the childlish tone = she is making...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:55:20 PST</pubDate>
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