Emily Dickinson Extended Metaphors

“There’s a certain Slant of light” by Emily Dickinson is a poem describing the speaker's observation of the light during a winter afternoon. Describing ‘light’ might elicit a feeling of joy and happiness but Dickinson’s poem describes light is a gloomy manner. By using imagery and alliteration Dickinson creates a feeling of disconcertment towards the ‘light’ described in the poem.

The mysterious woman, who only wore white, is one of Americas most famous female poets. She began writing at a young age, and continued to write or revise her work as she got older. Dickinson stayed fairly predictable in her style of writing, but was always original in content. It was common during this time period for for poets to not let reason limit their writing. Her writing style became even more unique after the death of many of her friends. Dickinson was very private and didn’t publish many of her poems herself. During the Romanticism Era Emily Elizabeth Dickinson wrote over 1,800 poems focusing on love, faith, pain, nature, and death but was very secluded from society which leaves much of her life up to speculation.

To the people in Emily Dickinson’s hometown, she was known as “the myth.” Some people say that Emily only ever wore white, even though the only confirmed photo of her shows her wearing a black dress. Others say that when she was young, she always carried a flower with her, no matter the occasion. When she died, her sister found 1,800 unread poems she had written. Emily Dickinson was an enigma, in her lifetime and ever since. When Emily Dickinson was a teenager, she began to pull herself away from society for no distinct reason. Her interactions with people were limited to close family and occasionally doctors. Yet, she wrote brilliant poems about romantic love as if she had experienced deep devotion and affection for a lover. Despite her reclusiveness,

Dickinson uses elements of nature to lay a harsh but true insight to our own inevitable deaths. That is, God has a plan and the world will continue to spin. The first stanza of the poem is clearly a snapshot of the fall months, this is extremely effective as we see the theme of death all around us annually. As the trees shed their leaves and the flowers wither away we can see beings die. Winter comes leaving a trail of destruction in it’s path, while in most places of the world the sun continues to rise right on schedule. This would have been even more noticeable in the 1800’s when Dickinson wrote the poem, as many would freeze and go hungry during the winter. Slowly as the weather gets warmer we start to see the ice and snow, that has just killed many plants, bugs, animals and so on, melt away. Even though the world is filled with these subtle hints at death “The Sun proceeds unmoved” (Dickinson, 6) meaning the world will go on, and Sun will again rise tomorrow. The indirect comparison between nature and death assists to provide a visual to this view.

The “The Moon is distant from the Sea” is a beautiful poem written by Emily Dickinson. The poem was written in 3 quatrains. The first and third stanzas are written in an ABAB rhyme scheme and in tetrameter-trimeter. Unlike the first and third quatrains, the second quatrain doesn’t follow the ABAB rhyme, but follows the same tetrameter-trimeter, excluding the third line. The devices used showcases Dickinson’s poetic skill. Enjambment is used prominently throughout the story; for example, a dash is followed by every line. Dickinson included alliteration in her writing in the second stanza, third line, “toward the Town”.

All three poems had their unique features, but I preferred “Hope #314.”. One of the reasons why Emily Dickinson’s poem grasped my attention was because of the figurative language she used. “ And sweetest in the Gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm,” is my favorite stanza. This stanza represents how all of us can still have hope regardless of our own storms. Our own storms may get terrible at one point of life, but we’ll always be able to count with hope since it’s infinite. The bird is a symbol of hope which was the main idea of the poem. “ A Dream Deferred,” by Langston Hughes, provided several rhetorical questions, “ Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like

There are over three million cases of depression every year, and odds are you may know someone. Depression is a very common mental condition nowadays in the 21st century and most people can’t even recognize someone who is depressed. Famous American poet Emily Dickinson is probably America’s favorite poet, or one of the four favorites after Frost, Hughes, and Plath. Dickinson, in her poems, doesn’t always seem like the theme is depression/death/dying, as much as Plath, but there are a few of her poems where she does represent death or depression. We know that most of her life was pretty decent, or normal. However, there was a point in her life at around the age of 14 where she lost one of her closest friends Sofia, which people believe was a point where she started writing poems about death. People believe that a few of her famous poems about death happened around her near

The poetry of the Imagists is short, simple, and quite literal in its meaning in order to create a vivid picture in the reader’s mind. When they describe an object, it means just what they say. A tree is a tree, a flower is a flower, and a bird is a bird. Imagists have little use for abstract words or ideas, and tend to shy away from them as much as possible. Emily Dickinson doesn’t fall under the same category as the Imagists, as she doesn’t use the same techniques as the Imagists.

Emily Dickinson is considered one of the greatest poets today in America, yet in the 19th century her work was considered inconsequential, unconventional, and unacknowledged amongst many of her peers. Dickinson’s work is unique beyond measure, because it changed the traditional rules of rhythm. Emily Dickinson’s experience of lost loved ones throughout her childhood and on into her adulthood made a significant impact on her life. It impacted her by making her disgruntled towards religion, and obsessing on death. Miss. Dickinson’s writing did closely reflect her life experiences, and emotions. Yet, when examining Dickinson’s poetry closely one can identify it as though she shaped personalities, and occasions

By two famous American poets, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, literature standard in United States was improved. They both use similar poetic structure, figurative language, and themes such as lyric poetry, rhyme, simile, personification, nature, and death. Also, they use different poetic structure, figurative language, and themes in their poems and thoses elements become their own unique styles such as slant rhyme, free verse, meeting and emotion with a few words, and anaphora. By Dickinson and Whitman’s own elements of poetic structure , their poems become famous in United States.

In her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts, social life consisted of church functions, college gatherings, and other forms of socialization such as buggy rides or discussing books. These types of things were not important to her. The physical world itself was more important to Dickinson, and it showed in her poetry. In her poem “I dreaded that first Robin, so” (DiYanni, p.923), she refers to woods, daffodils, grass and bees. She was concerned with life and death, and wanting others, as well as herself, to experience as much of life as possible no matter the consequences. She once told her older brother Austin when he was considering having an affair due to a ‘loveless’ marriage, and confided in her, “Go further, Austin. For me. . . . Do you want to die without

Emily Dickinson is one of the most interesting female poets of the nineteenth century. Every author has unique characteristics about him/her that make one poet different from another, but what cause Emily Dickinson to be so unique are not only the words she writes, but how she writes them. Her style of writing is in a category of its own. To understand how and why she writes the way she does, her background has to be brought into perspective. Every poet has inspiration, negative or positive, that contributes not only to the content of the writing itself, but the actual form of writing the author uses to express his/her personal talents. Emily Dickinson is no different. Her childhood and adult experiences and culture form

Although she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's many encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters. Perhaps one of the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American history, Dickinson has become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric life as for her incredible poems and letters. Numbering over 1,700, her poems highlight the many moments in a 19th century New England woman's life, including the

In completing a joint reading of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and Heinrich Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, readers are exposed to a multitude of ideas which both complement and contrast one another, namely that of the role of women within society, specifically in the nineteenth century, and desire and, within the concept of desire, the universal dichotomy of longing and belonging. Dickinson explores these concepts in much of her poetry, but for the purposes of this essay, three will be analysed and discussed. “This is my letter to the World”, within which Dickinson explores the vastness of the world and her place within it, as well as her fellow “countrymen”; “I had been hungry, all the Years”, which considers the nature of female desire and longing;

Firstly, the repetition in the phrase “we passed” in the third stanza shows that the nature of humans is to go through different stages in life before death. Dickinson ends the third stanza with the line “We passed the Setting Sun.” Which is the last stage of life, death. This reveals that at the start, the first stage of life is to go through is to go to school, study and get educated. By the time humans grow up, mature, and grow old it is the setting sun, which means that life is almost over, the way the sunsets there is just a bit of sunlight left before nighttime. Life is the same way; humans should not fear death because it is a normal stage of living. One of the main reasons Dickinson wrote that is because she strongly believes that there is eternity and the after life does exist, and it is a happy and exciting time because everyone would be in heaven. She grew up in a Christian home and was a Bible reader, Dickinson strongly believed fate was up to God. In addition, she had many family members pass away in her lifetime, such as her mother, father, and brother. Therefore, she thought it was something normal, that everyone will go through it and should not be scared of. Moreover, Dickinson refers to the grave as her house in the line, “We paused before a House that Seemed.” This exemplifies that Dickinson is very comfortable and pleased with the idea of death, leaving this life, and the afterlife. This is because human refer to home and house as something that we relax in, we do not have to worry about anything, we are protected and safe from everyone and everything else. She believes that the grave is cheerful, blissful, and