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The late psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross said: “The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.” This inspirational quote suggests that adversity provides people with new opportunities and can drive people to improve their life. Adversity comes in numerous forms, such as emotional, physical, and financial. Individuals have a choice to learn from adversity or allow it to break their character. However, certain types of adversity, such as severe chronic conditions or diseases, do little to improve character and the human condition. Thus, all types of adversity, pain, and suffering are not beneficial, however, most work to improve an

The last two lines of the poem are a timid reflection on what might happen “Had I the Art to stun myself/ With Bolts—of Melody!” (23-24). The idea that creation is a power that can get loose and injure even the creator illuminates why in this poem the artist positions herself firmly as a mere spectator. In these first two poems, we meet a Dickinson who is not entirely familiar to us—even though we are accustomed to her strong desire for privacy, these poems can be startling in the way they reveal the intensity of Dickinson’s fears. She is, after all, shrinking from what is dearest to her—nature, one of her favorite subjects, becomes a harsh judge, and poetry, her favored medium of communication, can suddenly render the reader “impotent” and the writer “stun[ned]” (19, 23). The extremity of her positions in shrinking from the small and beautiful things she loves creates the sense that this is just the beginning of a journey by leaving so much room for change.

Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous American poets. She wrote many poems throughout her lifetime, but it was not until after her death that she became famous. She wrote about death and life, love and separation, and God. She wrote about topics like these because she was inspired by the experiences in her life. Throughout her life, she dealt with problems that caused her to seclude herself, wear only a while dress, and write poems. Many have questioned what caused her seclusion? What happened that was so devastating to make her want to be alone all the time? Why did she always wear white?

Sometimes her views are very romantic, but other times they are intimidating and a little eerie. Many people agree that, “[Dickinson’s] poems’ greatness comes from the elaborate use of literary techniques to give shape to death, and the ambiguity of meaning that allows different interpretations of these journeys”

“What is striking in the work of Emily Dickinson as one searches it for her beliefs is the frank, thoughtful, sometimes playful, but always direct approach which she makes to the problems of life, death, and immortality” (Humiliata 145). Dickinson gives her readers many concise works with dozens of underlying meanings, however the most prominent, is her compassion for her beliefs and religion. Furthermore, Dickinson ties her ideas of faith strongly to the natural world and her surroundings.

Have you ever felt like life was knocking you down constantly by darkness? Well, the poems by Emily Dickinson tell us all about the experience and then some. The poems are called “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out”. But, when people talk about sight, they can be foreshadowing about something else. The speaker in these poems are talking about adjusting, positivity and accepting the change.

How she says “And lick the Valleys up –” (2), “Around a Pile of Mountains –” (5), and “Then chase itself down Hill” (13). These all show how everything is made smaller than they actually are, like models of the actual mountains and valleys. Yet, as much as she says that she likes watching the train she does not like how it does as it wills. An example of this is in the line: “To fit its Ribs / And Crawl Between” (9-10) meaning the train needs tracks to travel and when those tracks are built it cuts through the land and the train does not care, because it is “omnipotent”. Dickinson goes on to say:

Running through Dickinson's work is a concern with the workings of the body itself. Her poems offer a compelling inner perspective on the breath, the circulation of the blood, varieties of pain, and the last moments of life itself. While human-scaled and engaged with the viscerality of the everyday, her work simultaneously conjures the epic and the immense — cosmic rhythms

11-12) shows how the train points out that this is not easy. It is as if he is saying "I am doing what you ask of me, but you are demanding a lot of me. I want to please you, but sometimes I have to let you know just how much you are asking of me." With the last stanza, Dickinson seems to be implying that the creature is an iron horse when the train neighs "like Boanerges—" (l. 14). During Emily Dickinson’s time, this statement could have been comparing industrial advancement to man’s more familiar way of transportation for many years. Just like a horse, the train is easily controlled despite being all-powerful as Dickinson points out by calling the train "docile and omnipotent" in line sixteen. With the use of docile, Dickinson reminds the reader that though it may appear to be alive, it still cannot move without the control of man. For many years man used loyal and strong horses to travel. Like an obedient horse, this iron horse will get to its destination on time, do what it is told, and accomplish great feats for its master.

In the sophisticated world of plants, as well as the wildflowers, trees, and shrubs that made up Emily Dickinson's Amherst, provided the poet with a constant source of inspiration and companionship. Emily Dickinson gardened throughout her life. At age eleven, she announced to a friend, "My Plants grow beautifully" (L3). In her middle years, she was able to tend plants year-round in the glasshouse her father added to the Homestead. Dickinson once said, "My flowers are near and foreign, and I have but to cross the floor to stand in the Spice Isles” (L315). A letter written just a few years before her death reminds us that Dickinson had to work to make such magic happen, "I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around"

In her poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, Dickinson makes use of darkness as a symbol to carry across the poem’s deeper meaning. The literal content of the poem describes walking through the darkness without light, but she insinuates the overall message through poetic devices. Dickinson cleverly applies the elements of imagery, connotative diction and structure, and point of view in order to communicate the true significance of darkness and night. Imagery is especially prevalent in To the Dark, as the poem centers around the idea of darkness and how it is physically viewed by the human eye. Throughout the poem, the narrator assures the audience that they will “grow accustomed to the dark,” and uses several examples of imagery to describe the process.

Emily Dickinson was an American poet who came from a family with great power in their community. Even though her family was so well known and notable she wasn’t as sociable, she mostly kept to herself. Reading and analyzing all her poetry and reading what she thought and her perception of life, society, people, and your own personal being, is intriguing to know what might be going on in her life or through her head to be a person who is so pushed away from everyone else. Most of her literary work is based upon things that were going on in society at the time she lived, everyone at those times did what everyone else did just so they wouldn’t be a castaway, and nobody really had a great sense of self being. After reading through

Two of Dickinson’s universal techniques are metaphor and the fresh application of language; both techniques result in powerful images, and can be seen in two of her poems that focus on nature themes, “ A Bird came down the Walk” and “narrow Fellow.” She closes the poem, “ A Bird” with a stanza equating flight through the air with movement through water,

Can human creatures do without the windows of soul - eyes and belong to the world of feelings and senses? A diversity of thoughts for a theme that raises contradictions. I think no, you think maybe, but what does Emily Dickinson think? What does the ‘’blind’’ poet that experiences the world from her “room” think? Between lines and stanzas Emily Dickinson expresses herself, as a passionate poet, without barriers, open-minded and sincere.With a diamond-hard language that reflects light to the dark, hope and inspiration till the last moment she attracts us to her unique world. By reading her pearls in white paper, we get deep into thoughts in our brain.

This makes us refer back to the concept of death, where death is in an idea where it shouldn’t be feared as ‘Immortality” is something that goes on forever. Dickinson uses a dash, after the word ‘Ourselves’ in the phrase “The carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality”, to signify an after thought, which creates awareness for the reader, suggesting that there is more to that as there isn’t a full stop to end the