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Emily Dickinson
The use of a child’s voice in “What is Paradise?” is absolutely crucial to its overall meaning. Were an adult to ask so many questions about life, the universe, and everything, it might come across...
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Emily Dickinson
First of all, let’s deal with the similarities between the two poems. They are both marked by a prevailing sense of loneliness and isolation. In “What is Paradise?” It’s the speaker who is only,...
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Emily Dickinson
Dickinson presents Love in all its majesty and grandeur as being completely self-contained. To drive home what seems like a fairly simple point, she capitalizes the word, effectively personifying...
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Emily Dickinson
In "Before I got my eye put out –," the speaker has, at least partially, lost her ability to see; the poem expounds upon how overwhelmed and ecstatic she would be if she were told that she could...
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Emily Dickinson
The most obvious stylistic literary device used here is consonance. This is the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different. In "There Is...
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Emily Dickinson
The dominant theme of Emily Dickinson’s “Nature is what we see” is the indescribable or indefinable glory of the natural world. The speaker endeavors to define nature according to what we can see...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is famous for her frequent use of dashes in her poetry. In earlier editions of her poems, these were edited out, but later, critics realized they were an important and distinctive...
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Emily Dickinson
At the beginning of the poem, in the first stanza, the speaker mentions her early morning walk with her dog and refers to the sea as a "Basement": demonstrably unromantic images. She seems to see...
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Emily Dickinson
In Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth lays out the rules of romantic poetry. He defines it as the “spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion” that uses the language of “real men” and reflects...
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Emily Dickinson
This poem was written by Emily Dickinson during the American Civil War. Its syntax—that is, the structure of the sentences and the arrangement of the words—is similar to that of Dickinson's other...
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Emily Dickinson
The first t of the TPCASTT initialism stands for title. From the title of this poem, one might infer that the speaker is depressed and maybe even suicidal. From the title, the speaker seems not to...
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Emily Dickinson
In this poem, the speaker makes the point that she consists of two parts: a body and a soul. The stronger of these two parts is her soul, for it is not confined by the "mortal bone" of her physical...
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Emily Dickinson
A binary opposition is a way of thinking about two things that would seem to be strict opposites; as opposites, they are mutually exclusive and cannot both occur simultaneously. Theoretically,...
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Emily Dickinson
Let's first discuss what the term binary means. Dictionary.com explains it as something involving two things—e.g., the numbers 0 and 1, or a mathematical equation involving x and y. In everyday...
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Emily Dickinson
Rumi and Emily Dickinson differ greatly as poets, so it is an interesting assignment to write a one-page paper on them both. I've provided links below to reputable sources on both Rumi and Emily...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's poem "The is no Frigate like a Book" is characteristically pithy and filled with striking images. It is eight lines long, with the rhyme scheme abcbdefe, though the first rhyme is...
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Emily Dickinson
This poem compares the development of the soul to the process of creating a house. When building a house, there are many "props" that assist in the construction. And when it is...
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Emily Dickinson
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...
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Emily Dickinson
In order to get a good answer, you should ask a more focussed question. Are there specific things we can help you with? I'll give you a couple thoughts about the two poems that might help you get...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's personal life comes through in the themes of her poetry as well as in its style. Common themes of her work include death, grief, nature, love, and introspection. Dickinson grieved...
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Emily Dickinson
One of the reasons why Dickinson's poetry is so thought provoking is because her poetry shows a sincere interest in reflecting about the individual and their place in the world. Dickinson's poetry...
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Emily Dickinson
In the first two poems you list—"I died for beauty" and "Because I could not stop for Death"—Dickinson approaches death in an almost casual way. In both poems, the speaker seems somewhat...
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Emily Dickinson
In Emily Dickinson's poem (titled by the first line of the poem given many of her poems were untitled and publishers needed a way to "name" them after her death) "Witchcraft was hung in history"...
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Emily Dickinson
Because this question is very general, I will focus on two poems in which I think Dickinson focuses expressly on individuality and on the importance of privacy. Based on what we know for certain...
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Emily Dickinson
In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death," the speaker in the poem is picked up in a carriage by Death and Immortality. The carriage drives slowly past symbols of her childhood...
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Emily Dickinson
First of all, the title to Emily Dickinson's poem, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," draws the reader's attention to the word "Truth," capitalized in the title. So the focus of the poem is on...
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Emily Dickinson
There is an element of mystery surrounding the subject of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, her desire (or lack of desire) to see her works published, and whether her poems were published with or without...
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Emily Dickinson
That's not much of a pun, but I guess it is one, sort of. The whole point of the poem is that nature doesn't really care what happens to individual things, like one particular flower. The frost...
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Emily Dickinson
At first glance, you would think there would not be many: Dickinson wrote comparatively tiny poems that fiercely articulated a turbulent internal life; her intended audience, if there was one...
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Emily Dickinson
"Bliss" is quite a strong word because it can mean a state of perfect happiness. But Dickinson calls it a "daily bliss" meaning it can or does happen every day. This sounds like Heaven on Earth,...
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Emily Dickinson
I had to edit your question down to one. The speaker is trying to forget someone. For whatever reason, the memory of this person is causing the speaker distress. Perhaps this person hurt her...
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Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered to be, not only the two best poets of the nineteenth century, but also the two best poets that the United States has ever produced. Of course, this,...
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Emily Dickinson
One Emily Dickinson poem that is widely studied for its references to death is 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death.' The poet goes on from this title phrase to add that Death 'kindly' waited for...
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Emily Dickinson
First, you need to know the difference between abstract and concrete language. Concrete language refers to something specific and tangible, and this leads to more precise visualization for the...
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Emily Dickinson
Many of Emily Dickinson's poems include a reference to the color purple. A few of the poems are "There is a flower that bees prefer", "Wait Till the Majesty of Death", and "We like March", "It...
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Emily Dickinson
This excellent poem from Dickinson compares the brain to a number of different objects and argues that the brain always comes out of the comparison more favourably. The series of metaphors that...
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Emily Dickinson
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...
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Emily Dickinson
Literary elements used in American poet Emily Dickinson's poem “There’s been a Death in the Opposite House” include the following: Stanzas A stanza is a poem unit. They’re typically “repeated...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson refers to the color purple in many of her poems ("There is a flower that bees prefer", "Wait Till the Majesty of Death", and "We like March", and "It will be...
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Emily Dickinson
From the poem itself, it is not evident that Dickinson is trying to help anyone specific. Therefore, it is possible that she's saying that if just one person is impacted by her poetry, she "has not...
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Emily Dickinson
Tone in literature and poetry usually refers to the emotion, feeling and perspective that comes through behind the words. Word choice and arrangement alter the tone greatly, and Emily Dickinson,...
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Emily Dickinson
It's difficult to think of any two poems that could be further apart than the self-effacing "I'm Nobody" and the celebration of self in "Song of Myself." One is brief, the other lengthy. The voice...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson uses the color purple in many of her poems. Regardless, the symbolism of the purple is not necessarily always the same. For example, in her poem "We Like March" (see second link...
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Emily Dickinson
The line "There is a flower that bees prefer" comes from Part Two of Emily Dickinson's "Nature". Dickinson makes many different references to the color purple in the poem: To gain the purple...
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Emily Dickinson
In Emily Dickinson's poem (named by its first line) "One dignity delays for all", the last dignity which one has is that of a proper funeral. Dignity is a state which is worthy of respect....
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Emily Dickinson
First, you must understand that we can never truly know the answer to this question. Why? Because we can't ask Emily. Further, no one ever asked her during her lifetime, either. Therefore, your...
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Emily Dickinson
This is one of Emily Dickinson's poems where she challenges the norm and tries to make us see how we need to modify our approach to "truth". Dickinson uses metaphors to describe truth as a blinding...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson's poem beginning with the line "It dropped so low -- in my Regard" is open to a wide variety of interpretations.One thing we can note is that she juxtaposes concrete objects with...
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Emily Dickinson
Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of Emily Dickinson's irony and sarcasm is her short poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" First, saying "I'm Nobody" is verbal irony, because everybody is...
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Emily Dickinson
A significant number of Dickinson's poems take as their subject the relationship between the human and the antural world. In this sense, she can be associated with the Romantic poets, who likewise...
