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    One of the first things that strikes any reader when they look at a Dickinson poem is the unique way it announces itself on the page. My first thought when studying her poetry can best be described through a quote from Dickinson herself – “Here’s freedom”. While this phrase was used by Dickinson to describe the freedom she felt in her room in Amherst I felt there was a real sense of freedom in her poetry as she cast off the rules of punctuation and grammar to express her ideas. And it is these ideas

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    Emily Dickinson Diction

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    Emily Dickinson There is a multitude of poems written with the theme of death‚ be it in a positive light or negative. Some poets write poems that depict Death as a spine-chilling inevitable end‚ others hold respect for this natural occurrence. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”‚ diction and personification is utilized to demonstrate the speaker’s cordial friendship with Death. Dickinson uses exemplar diction to stress the calm and comfortable atmosphere the speaker

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    Emily Dickinson was born on December 10‚ 1830 to Edward and Emily (Norcross) Dickinson‚ in Amherst‚ Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley and Amherst academy. She had two other siblings. Her brother‚ William Austin Dickinson‚ had preceded her by a year and a half and her sister‚ Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. She had only attended Holyoke for a year mainly due to her homesickness and the label of “no hope” given to her by the ministers at Holyoke. She had been fascinated

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    Josh Mclawhorn Eng 232 Professor Etheridge 9/24/2012 Emily Dickinson’s “The Snake” “The snake” by Emily Dickinson is a 24 line poem describing an encounter with a snake in the grass. The six stanzas of the poem flow together in an ABCB rhyme scheme yet are not formalized into any specific meter. “The Snake” says that Dickinson shares a friendly and appreciative connection with a snake because it is being of nature‚ just as she is a being of nature; but even while she appreciates this creature‚

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    authors of this period is Charlotte Brontë. Growing up in Victorian England‚ Charlotte and her sisters were inspired by the Romantic authors of the time including Sir Walter Scott‚William Wordsworth and Lord George Gordon Byron. As sisters and authors‚ Charlotte‚ Emily and Anne gave each other moral support‚ shared creative ideas and proof-read one another’s work.  Inspired through events close to her heart and those she created in imaginary worlds‚ Charlotte Brontë continues to charm readers with

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    Harris English Comp II 11 November 2011 Emily Dickinson I. Emily Dickinson was an introvert who wrote poems about life‚ love and death. Dickinson showed her feelings of death and Desire using unusual scenario’s that cause the reader to stretch their thinking and go beyond superficial thought. Emily Dickinson uses imagery‚ Form‚ and settings in her poems in “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died” to set the tone of the poem. II. Dickinson uses imagery in “I Heard a

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    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 are the most obvious

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    Emily Dickinson Imagery

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    In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I am afraid to own a Body” the speaker primarily uses sound to posit the overall theme of the poem. More specifically‚ she uses incoherent and disjointed repetition (notably alliteration and assonance) and slant rhymes that scatter the poem but do not fall into any pattern to suggest her own inability to conform to expected or desired patterns of being a human. The background imagery of inheritance to which the poem alludes complements these expected patterns. The first

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    Emily Dickinson Hope

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    since you have a goal or a plan. Thankfully Emily Dickinson has created a poem called hope which is about hope. Hope has saved so many people‚ and yet lives in dangerous areas like a storm. Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” shows the theme “There can be hope in any situation”‚ through the use of similes‚ symbolism‚ and imagery. First‚ similes is a good way to compare and express one thing to another‚ usually making it more descriptive and vivid. As the poem states “Hope is a thing with feathers‚ / That

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    Emily Dickinson Religion

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    It is known that a mass amount of Emily Dickinson’s poetry casts a theme of death. The online Emily Dickinson’s museum article states‚ “The subject of death‚ including her own death‚ occurs throughout Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. Although some find the preoccupation morbid‚ hers was not an unusual mindset to a time and place where religious attention focused on being prepared to die and where people died of illness and accident more readily than they do today.” “Some Keep the Sabbath by

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