Outline For Emily Bronte Research Paper

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Thesis: Emily Bronte was a poet who lived in England and wrote poems about her life as seen in her works, “No Coward Soul is Mine”, “Riches I Hold in Light Esteem”, “A Day Dream”.
Introduction: Emily Bronte was born in Yorkshire, England, July 30, 1818. At three years old, Emily was sent to Clergy Daughter’s School along with her three older sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte where they encountered abuse described by Charlotte. Maria and Elizabeth caught Typhus which plagued the school and later died. Emily and Charlotte was pulled out after the Typhus swept the school. The remaining sisters and brother,
Patrick Branwell, were educated by their father and aunt at home. During their free time, the children would usually go into their made up world of fantasy. She and her sisters published poems in 1846 using their pen names. Emily Bronte published under the name, Ellis Bell. Her life experiences inspired her to write poetry.
I.
Emily Bronte wrote poems about her life experiences.
A. It is shown in poems such as “A Day Dream”.
1. In the poem, Emily was outdoors daydreaming of the end of May. She daydreamed about the birds, trees, plants. Etc. She felt miserable because she knew that all those will be gone as winter approaches. During winter plants die and the animals will be gone. Then she wonders “what is the point of having good times if they will all just be gone?”
2. Later on, she gets a vision of angels telling her that all of us will die someday and told her that she doesn’t have to worry about winter and autumn anymore. Winter and autumn symbolises the hardships and pain we have to endure in our
lives.
3. She then awakes from her day dream and wonder if what she dreamed was a fantasy or a reality.
B. It was also shown in the poem “Riches I Hold in Light Esteem”.
1. This poem shows Emily having a free spirit. A free spirit without any desires. She then realized that at any time anywhere she could desire anything she wants. It’s showing that she doesn’t desire anything now, but she could desire tomorrow.
2. She wants to keep her freedom of spirit so she could not desire anything.
C. It is shown in “No Coward Soul is Mine”
1. In this poem, it shows Emily Bronte’s feelings and views of God. She also shows how things like faith and death are connected to him.
I. She made the poem in first person to express her feelings towards God.
2. She compared God to strong objects such as rocks to say that God is powerful. She compared men to “worthless withered weeds” to say that men could be sinful at times.
II.
My connections with Emily Bronte and her works.
A. My relation with her poem “A Day Dream”.
1. Sometimes I contemplate on life thinking about what’s good and what’s bad in this world. Sometimes I wonder why we have good times if bad times are going to ruin it anyway. Then I try to find answers of my own. We have bad times to have better times. As humans we learn from experiences based from wrong doing.
2. Relation with “Riches I Hold in Light Esteem”.
1. Desire is what makes people greedy. It is what makes people commit mistakes whether it be material desire or desire for power and knowledge. Desiring something is what makes a person human. It is implanted in a human’s mind that we must acquire what we desire for our personal purposes. These purposes are usually intended for themselves and sometimes require a negative impact in others. Sometimes when you desire something and acquire it, you tend to hurt some others on the way. But having a free soul on the other hand, will make you careless and too free. Being careless will hurt yourself even if you don’t know it. It is not normal for a person to not desire anything for everyone desires something once in a while. This is why we must balance being free spirited and having desires to not hurt the ones we love and ourselves as
well.
3. Relation with “No Coward Soul is Mine”.
1. Emily Bronte showed through the poem that God is powerful. I could relate to this poem because as a Catholic, I believe in God Almighty. She also showed that man could be like weed, useless and harmful. The human race has committed mistakes before, committing mistakes now, and will commit mistakes in the future. But through these mistakes, we gain something from them, experience. God lets man commit mistakes for a good reason and that is to learn. Learning is part of human nature. We learn to become something greater. We learn to improve what we have and what we are. And we learn to strengthen our beliefs of our faith.

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