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    Bells Put out their Tongues‚ for Noon. … And yet it tasted like them all‚ The Figures I have seen Set orderly‚ for Burial‚ Reminded me‚ of mine - ~Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson presents to readers a speaker who is rummaging her psychological frame while trying to understand her anguish. In the first stanza‚ Dickinson eliminates certain possibilities of what “it” could be (“it” being her mental condition)‚ pointing out that it was certainly not death that stood her up because “the

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    I heard a fly buzz... When I died is a very calm poem near to death... Emily herself faced death trials many times in her life‚ and therefore she wrote many poems regarding death... In this poem she seems to be calm or rather helpless at the time of death... She seems to be relaxed on this natural process‚ she now on her bed‚ thinking of everything that has gone through her life and about her death and life after... At some moment it is felt that she have even died at the end because the calmness

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    is the case in Emily Dickenson’s “Crumbling is not an instant’s Act‚” Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays‚” and Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Theme is a distinct‚ recurring‚ and unifying quality or idea that is the subject of a particular composition and all three of the aforementioned poems have similar but distinct themes. Emily Dickinson’s “Crumbling is not an instant’s Act” theme is that of the crumbling‚ or breaking down of an individual. Dickinson explores the different

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    "I first surmised the horses’ heads were toward eternity."(Dickinson) In this poem a girl goes on a carriage ride with death and immortality. This carriage ride is very slow and the girl has to gives up a lot for death‚ almost like he is her family. When she is on this carriage ride she passes many sites that she was too busy to see before. Then death and her stop at a house which looks similar to a grave. Then she dies into eternity. This poem begins with a carriage ride‚ through many scenes‚ and

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    The poems “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson are similar in two ways. They are also different in one way. First‚ they are both referring to death. Secondly‚ they are showing death in the form of a journey. Finally‚ they are different in the way that “Because I could not stop for Death” is using personification for death. Where “Crossing the Bar” is using metaphors to describe death. Our first similarity is that both the poems

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    Compare/Contrast Essay James Stephens and Emily Dickinson both talk about the wind but interpret it in different ways. Stephens’s poem “The Wind” is portrayed as an angry wind or the beginning of a tornado ready to destroy everything in its path whereas Dickinson poem “The Wind tapped like a tired man‚” describes the wind as an old tired and timid man or a breeze that came and went. Stephens and Dickinson’s poems have similarities and differences. Their similarities are both poems talk

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    Emily Dickinson’s poem is an allegory‚ which on the symbolic level‚ the "Gun" represents the poet and the "Master" represents the person or soul mate that was meant to be the "poet". The speaker in the poem is clearly the "Gun" this is clear in the second stanza when the speaker says "And every time I speak for Him--/ The Mountains straight reply" "I" stands for the "Gun". This is also a personification because the "Gun" is being attributed human traits. The poem begins "My Life had stood—a Loaded

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    Amanda Galardi Gargiulo ENG 102 9/25/11 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/ http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html http://www.easybib.com/ http://citationmachine.net/ Quiz (MLA Documentation) – 60 points A. Answer the following questions using the above MLA Documentation websites (2 points each): 1. How do you arrange the entries on the Works Cited page? (Spacing‚ numbering‚ indentation) Alphabetically‚ do not number‚ double spaced‚ and must have a hanging

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    Analysis of "Crumbling is not an instant’s Act" by Emily Dickinson 	"Crumbling is not an instant’s Act" is a lyric by Emily Dickinson. It tells how crumbling does not happen instantaneously; it is a gradual process occurring slowly and cumulatively over time. The structure of this poem is complex and it tied directly into the figurative meaning. This poem consists of three quatrains written in iamic meter but with no set number of feet per line. Also‚ the second

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    The reality of life is that at some point it will all come to an end. End‚ one referencing it to when one is pronounced dead. Since death is unavoidable‚ we must take into account death because it is the finalization of our lives spent on this earth as well as an account of the way we left this world. There are numerous ways that one can leave this world‚ some die peacefully while others may die by force.The following will reveal the psychological mindsets concerning death as depicted in Poe’s “The

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