Mary Hyland 11/18/14 P.3 Poem Reaction Paragraphs Emily Dickinson: “Success Is Counted Sweetest” This poem brought about a reaction in me of true success. The message is those who succeed‚ never truly appreciate success: only those who fail‚ or who lack something‚ can truly appreciate the joy if they had succeeded. The poet says “those who ne’er succeed” genuinely value success‚ or as she says‚ “They “count” it “sweetest”. Dickinson also states the members of the victorious army
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Emily Dickinson’s The sky is low-the Clouds are mean is a poem written about the way people in our everyday life can be cruel and mean. This poem from the beginning presents a very sad tone that is presented throughout. By going through the poem line by line you can see how the cruelty of someone’s words and the choices we make can portray to the outcome of our day. The poem suggests that nature is mad and reaking her havoc onto the Earth. The speaker says‚ “The Sky is low‚ the Clouds are mean”
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the “grass” to the “boggy acre”‚ places the speaker will never fully belong to or understand. * The snake’s actions‚ like nature‚ are unpredictable and thus despite the familiarity‚ the reminiscing and almost conversational tone for much of the poem the speaker can never truly understand or belong to the snake’s world – the paradox. * The second stanza creates a sense of something invisible or mysterious‚ identified only by the momentary glance of the “spotted shaft”. * In the third and
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Ambiguity in Dickinson’s “Much Madness” Emily Dickinson’s “Much Madness” tells about her life‚ while also reflecting the life of the reader. She uses words in the poem that are ambiguous and that are open for suggestion such as madness‚ discerning‚ and starkest. The proem is also full of cleverness and humor. The first line of Dickinson’s poem‚ “Much Madness is divinest Sense‚” makes the reader wonder about the words madness and divinest. Is the word madness referring to someone who is insane
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Report Hope by Emily Dickinson Can you imagine life with out hope? I think Emily Dickinson may have used hope a lot in her life and that’s why she wrote this wonderful poem‚ to inspire those without hope to give them a perspective from a beautiful bird that hope can change your life in any way you dream it. I choose to analyze the famous poem “hope” by Emily Dickinson‚ Such an interesting and mysterious poet she lived her entire life in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ only two of her poems where published
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EMILY ZOLA (1840-1902) French novelist and critic‚ the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Zola redefined Naturalism as "Nature seen through a temperament." Among Zola ’s most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893)‚ which included such novels as L ’ASSOMMOIR (1877)‚ about the suffering of the Parisian working-class‚ NANA (1880)‚ dealing with prostitution‚ and GERMINAL (1885)‚ depicting the mining industry. Zola ’s open letter J ’ACCUSE on January 13‚ 1898‚
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“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Poetry uses many different literary elements to express ideas and themes. Emily Dickinson’s‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” captures the feelings of one whom is accepting death with open arms‚ while reminiscing on her journey through life. Dickinson’s life‚ as well as historical context plays a large role in influencing “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Throughout her life she became increasingly isolated‚ as well as facing many circumstances surrounded
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of literary techniques in Emily Dickinson’s work “Hope”‚ Dickinson believes that hope last forever and it is always there since hope waits for us until it is necessary for it. By the author using metaphors‚ it displays the saying hope last forever. The metaphors in the poem makes the readers think of something else. The author puts down stances about something totally different then hope. It is the readers job to understand the metaphor in order to make sense of the poem. To illustrate “Hope is the
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1)Throughout the poems of Emily Dickinson. She seems to have a new theme‚ idea‚ or tone in a different poem. One theme that is in poem 49 is based on her own life and what she experiences. This is proven when Dickinson mentions that “I never lost as much but twice...Twice have I stood a beggar.”(1-4)‚ which shows that she lost a sort of person in her life‚ perhaps her dad because she turns poor and begs for money. However‚ in the poem 249 it is about life is good and you should enjoy it. It mentions
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I will choose to talk about “712” and “465” of Emily Dickinson’s poems for contrasting Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. Whitman and Dickinson have three differences of characteristics in their poems. First‚ they have a different way to structure poems. Whitman’s poetic form is free verse. Whitman’s poems are narrative and expansive style. His voice is expansive and talk about A to Z. On the other hand‚ Dickinson is definite structure. Dickinson’ poem style is like distillation. There is a lack of rhetorical
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