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    poetry is deeply personal and striking original “ Discuss In her poetry Dickinson explores her sharply contrasting moods in her renowned unique manner. Themes such as mental breakdown‚ despair ‚ hope and love are always related to the poets personal experience. Her poems are attempts to understand the essence if her own widely varying often extreme states of mind. Few poets are as instantly recognizable as Dickinson. Concise and fresh use of language‚ unusual images and unconventional punctuation

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    08 May 2013 When Death Takes Over Originality can bring forth different styles and movements that can introduce new perspectives. Emily Dickinson and Flannery O’Connor bring their own ingeniousness through their most beloved works. The poem “There is a Certain Slant of Light” and the short story “Greenleaf” are prime examples of the authors’ brilliance. Dickinson and O’Connor lived in eras where their works demonstrated original thoughts‚ where they pertained a level of knowledge ahead of their

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    Emily Dickinson [pic] The Brain -- is wider than the Sky The Brain -- is wider than the Sky -- A For -- put them side by side -- B The one the other will contain C With ease -- and You -- beside – B The Brain is deeper than the sea -- D For -- hold them -- Blue to Blue -- E The one the other will absorb -- F As Sponges -- Buckets -- do --

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    Emily Dickinsons writing is highly personal but at the same time manages to be relatable to everyone. Her themes are universal and are something that everyone can relate to which is presumably the reason that her poems are still around and so popular today. She uses simple language and aldso random capitilisation and dashes. ouaehrfquoerhfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff- ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff- ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffg

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    Lived After evaluating my perception of The Last Night that She Lived‚ by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don’t appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at times. This is a Narrative poem that tells a story about a death of a young woman. In the first verse Dickinson was saying when she wrote‚ "The last Night that She lived It was a common night

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    community‚ Emily Dickinson often implicitly challenged normative conceptions of women through both her poetic brilliance‚ and the candid voice that she employs within her poems. While describing the effects of friendship in her poem “The Soul selects her own Society‚–” Dickinson implicitly confronts the conventional‚ gendered‚ perception of women‚ a sentiment also evident in her poems “I started early–Took my Dog‚” and “They shut me up in Prose.” Before tactfully criticizing them‚ Dickinson alludes

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    Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most recognized female poets of the nineteenth century. Dickinson’s unique style of writing is what set her apart from most poets of her time. Her compressed and forceful wording made it possible for her to place more meaning into fewer words; this is seen in Dickinson’s poem‚ “Much Madness is Divinest Sense.” At first glance‚ Dickinson’s poem seems misleadingly short and simple with only eight lines and an obvious theme of madness versus sanity; however‚ on

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    Jessica Lynch Professor J. S. Ward English 270 August 9‚ 2014 Individual Analysis: “I’m Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson wrote a masterpiece of a poem called‚ “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”. The simplicity of the poem is easy to understand and to articulate what the author is portraying. The theme of the poem would be that there are “nobodies” in this world because when you’re a “somebody” life would be difficult. Along with the theme there are a variety of literary elements that creates

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    Emily Dickinson’s poem 632 is so full of poetic nuances that it makes one wonder up to what extent were the poet’s intentions and what was not. Well but‚ what does it even matter- right? Although I have failed to wrap my head around the entirety of the poem‚ I shall nevertheless endeavor to provide meaning to a few lines I have found intriguing. This poem is basically an ode to the human intellect‚ comparing it to vast objects; ideas even‚ to show what it is capable of. At the same time‚ it shows

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    Jordan Tyler Poetry Analysis: Emily Dickinson‚ I Felt a Funeral in my Brain ENGL 2205: American Literature 1865-Present 03/15/2016 Emily Dickinson had a unique style to her poetry that was very different from any other poetry written in her lifetime (Gubele). She used many different mechanisms to amplify her poetry‚ such as the use of slant rhyme and non-traditional forms like the “fourteener” (Gubele). At a glance her poetry may appear to be very simplistic but the substance would uncover the

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