A Brief Biography of Emily Carr

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In light of Homers feelings toward marriage Emily had been seen in town at the jewelers purchasing a men’s toilet set in silver with the letters H.B. on each

The term "death" refers to someone who is dying or had been killed, basically someone who is at the end of their life. But, to Miss Emily, "death" has a different meaning. "Death" to Miss Emily is when someone is still living their life, even though they are skeletons. Miss Emily keeps dead bodies because she does not ever see death for what it is. She does not think they are dead. In "A Rose for Emily", the theme of control is shown through Emily's interaction with her father in her youth, as well as in Emily's controlling of death.

For Carr, the Canadian art scene seemed to be disjointed; she felt that Canadian art was not capturing the mood of the Canadian landscape. In searching for new inspiration Carr was accepted to the San Francisco Art School and studied for five years in 1899-1895 learning “portraiture, design, landscape, and drawing from plaster casts.” Although these techniques aided Carr in her paintings, she still felt something lacked. Carr then set her sights on Europe for their “New Art.” In 1899 Carr traveled to London and studied at the Westminster School of Art where she learned to pain in the Romantic European landscape style. Here, Carr learned techniques more suited to her style of landscape but she still felt that it was not enough to capture the essence of the Canadian wilderness. Undeterred, Carr looked again for new techniques. Learning that London was not to her taste Carr turned her attention to Paris, the home of many modern art movements. In 1910 Carr began to study in Paris. Paris was the most transformative learning experience for Carr. In Paris, Carr came in contact with new modernist painters like those of the fauvists. Fauvism was a French style of painting that took an analytical approach to subjects and the expressive qualities of saturated and non-naturalistic colours. Finally, Carr felt like she had found a style that could express the grandeur of Canada. Returning to Canada in 1911 Carr used the expressive qualities of the fauves within her landscapes. Unfortunately, the Canadian art scene did not positively receive this new fauvist inspired art. Plagued with economic problems, and a feeling of alienation, Emily Carr abstained from painting for fifteen years, until she came in contact with the Canadian Group of Seven. The Group of Seven, a Canadian group of seven landscape painters were, like Carr,

William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” carries a theme represented by a dying breed of that era, while using symbolism to represent tragedy, loneliness and some form of pride, the story also shows how far one will go to have the approval of others and the pursuit of happiness.

Although the law intervened and buried her father, the “crayon portrait of Miss Emily’s father” further emphasized the great effect he had on her lifestyle and mindset.

Like many famed writers such as Confucius or Voltaire; Dickinson’s writings weren’t popularized for another century, when she and Walt Whitman grew to be known as the best 19th Century poets. The writer was born in December of 1830 to a devoutly Christian family in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was around the time of her birth that the transcendentalist movement exploded, and perhaps this is why she became so reclusive. It is also speculated that Dickinson suffered a romantic disappointment around this time, which is believed to also be why she retreated to such a secluded lifestyle, where she was left alone to her thoughts and writings. She withdrew from society in her teens and her only contact with others was through letters. Similarly to Lao Tzu and Henry David Thoreau, Dickinson became fascinated with nature. It was for a long duration of time that Emily’s work was entirely unrecognized and unknown.

William Faulkner is a well-known author, whose writing belongs in the Realism era in the American Literary Canon. His writing was influence by his Southern upbringing, often setting his stories in the fictional Southern town, Yoknapatawpha County. “A Rose for Emily” was one of Faulkner’s first published pieces and displays many of the now signature characteristics of Faulkner’s writing. The short story provides commentary through the use of many symbols. In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”, the author uses the townspeople as a representation of societal expectations and judgments, Emily and her house as symbols for the past, and Homer’s corpse as a physical representation of the fear of loneliness.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is one of the best poets in America. She is known for her uncommon way of writing poetry. There was a great deal of problems going on in her life. She spent mostly her entire life living in her home and only left unless she needed to do so. Unlike other poets, she did not have any order to her writings. She just wrote what she was feeling. Her work was anonymously published and later became known after her death.

Emily Fisher was born into a decent self sufficient, upper middle class family. She lived a normal life. As she entered high school,she had many friends, a supportive family, and a seemingly loving boyfriend. One day her boyfriend asked her if she wanted to go to a party with drugs and alcohol present; although, Emily was reluctant on going. She decided to go anyways because she thought she would be in the presence of her protecting boyfriend. After they arrived at the party, her boyfriend quickly vanished into the crowd, returning with a drink in his hand, offering it to her. Emily did not want to drink alcohol so she politely declined his offer. He somehow talked her into drinking the beverage. Due to peer pressure she drank the beverage. After about 30 minutes she started to feel weak and her vision started to blur, she did not feel like herself. Emily tried to quickly find her boyfriend before her vision blurred completely. Emily passed out. She had faint memories of someone on top of her in a bedroom that she could not recognize. Once she came to her senses she was completely naked in a public place getting arrested for public nudity. The police officer took her to a mental hospital after she reported seeing strange things and hearing noises in her head . Later she found out that was the onset to schizophrenia. The traumatic event she just endured triggered the neurotransmitters in her brain to emit too much dopamine in her brain causing her to develop Schizophrenia,

Emily Grierson is to be tried as guilty for the murder of Homer Barron. Witnesses have given the readers sufficient accounts of Miss Emily’s behavior to cause belief in her committing murder of the first degree. “First degree murder is found when the defendant intends to kill and does so with premeditation and deliberation” (Criminal Law Murder Model). The victim, having been found locked away in the house of Miss Emily (327), is the basis of prosecution for the accused. Emily Grierson will be found guilty of murder because she premeditated her crime, was psychologically unstable, and attempted to conceal her crime.

Emily Dickenson was a writer and poet who lived during the mid-1800s. She was very lonely during her lifetime and she never actually became relevant until after her death when somebody else published her work in 1890. The main reason her work caught my attention is because I discovered that many scholars believed that she may have had conditions such as agoraphobia, depression, or anxiety;

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, into an influential family in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father helped found Amherst College, where Emily later attended between 1840 and 1846. She never married and died in the house where she was born on May 15, 1886.

Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in Amherst Massachusetts December tenth, 1830. As a child Dickinson’s love for books was massive yet she did not start writing poetry until she was eighteen. However, she was not known of until after her death. Nonetheless, some people other than her family did now about Dickinson’s remarkable poems. Furthermore, most tried encouraging her to publish her poems yet others did the contrary. Emily Dickinson’s life is what caused her to write such great poetry.

In the story “A Rose for Emily” we look into the depths of the demented mind of Miss Emily Grierson. Born and raised during the mid-1800’s in the fictional city of Jefferson, Mississippi in the fictional county of Yoknapatawha. The story begins in its present time of approximately 1934 A.D. at her funeral and courses back through her life to the many points of tragedy she endured.