Emily Dickinson's 'ILl Tell You How The Sun Rose'

Emily Dickinson’s poem, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-“is a profound portrayal of the debilitating process of grief human beings undergo when confronted with a horrific tragedy. The response to that ultimate pain is the predominance of numbness, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes-/The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs-“(1-2). This is a poem that must be read slowly to become saturated in the melancholy, the dehumanization of suffering as it affects each aspect of the body without reference to the chaotic emotionality of it. The abundance of metaphors within Dickinson’s poem provides the means to empathize the necessity of numbness. It is also through the use of punctuation and capitalization, depicting the presence of a

This provokes the readers' psyche of a lonesome, fragile individual, standing isolated at the end of an dark, treacherous road. This imagery is successfully used to illustrate a portrait of Dickinson, or even the individual reading the piece themselves, as they’re yearning for their new life, which right now is filled with darkness and sorrow. The poem is comprised of five stanzas, each consisting of four lines. The monotonous nature of the poem is nothing gleaming or eye catching, and this is purposely done for the conspicuous fact that sometimes, precious values and things you love are vaporized. With the abandonment of something important, the world does not stop revolving around you and seemingly mold itself for you. It will continue to revolve in the same way it always has for four and half billion years, but now only seeming to be filled with darkness, difficulty and

Most people depend on their sight to guide their path, but what if they lose their sense of sight? What would they do? Emily Dickinson’s vision grew poorer and poorer as she aged due to writing poems in the dim light of the night. She wrote two poems related to sight, but there was a much deeper meaning to the both of them. Sometimes people with the ability of sight are blinded as to someone who is blind can see clearly. People can not always depend on their eyes to lead their path in life.They have to open their soul to lead the way.

The poem discusses the idea that humans go through adversity, and most individuals learn to deal with adversity and grow accustomed to struggle. However, “The Bravest - grope a little / and sometimes hit a Tree / … as they learn to see” (Dickinson 13-14, 16). This line suggests that the most capable and courageous individuals in this world will utilize the adversity to become great rather than letting it break them down or just dealing with it. Specifically, by using words such as “grope” and “learn”, Dickinson emphasizes the importance of education and learning from experiences. In addition, by stating that hitting a tree helps these individuals see, suggests that the individuals go through a sort of awakening, and better understand their world and life. This idea is further compounded by another one of Emily Dickinson’s poems, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”. In particular, when the “Plank in Reason, broke / and hit a World, at every plunge / and finished knowing - then,” Dickinson suggests that all the adversity and pain in the beginning of the poem led to the final awakening or realization (Dickinson 17-18, 20). By using diction such as “World” and “knowing,” Dickinson emphasizes the broad impact that the realization will have on an individual’s life. Life never ceases being difficult, however, by learning from previous suffering, one can

Emily Dickinson lived a large period of her life isolated from the outside world, surrounded by her close family and friends. It is apparent that with most of her spare time, she wrote poems and letters. Dickinson’s poems were heavily influenced by the gothic movement in the 19th century of America, and her fascination with nature that is exposed through her continuous theme of nature being the source of joy or pain in your life. Both Dickinson’s curiosity about nature, and the gothic movement, influenced the recurring theme in her poems, which is displayed in the analysis of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”.

what the author wants to imply past the surface level of the work. In Emily Dickinson’s poem

In Dickinson’s poem, Eden, characterized as a place of holiness, warmth, and comfort, becomes “that old-fashioned house” (Dickinson 1). Her word choice gives the sense that Eden is a place of comfort and warmth similar to how old-fashioned house would be. She then goes on to say how the residents of the home “sauntered from the Door, Unconscious their returning, But discover it no more” (Dickinson 6-8). These three lines show a dramatic change of tone in writing, as it goes from a sense of being relaxed while walking out of “Eden”, to a sense of fear and anxiousness in order to return to “Eden”. To my understanding, the poem provides the allusion that “Dickinson’s Eden” is a place of comfort vaguely similar to our childhood, and that once we

Emily Dickinson, a famous poem whom uses and freely expressional expresses her perception in life. The poem “If you were coming in the fall” by Emily Dickinson expresses many different themes such as time and love. The main theme in the story is hidden throughout the entire poem, and expressed in a sorrowful tone.

The poem that my group and I have studied over the past three weeks is the poem, “If

“If You Were Coming in the Fall”, is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson wrote a a lot about love. Dickinson fell in love with an unknown person when she was in her early twenties. Unfortunately, Edward Dickinson did not approve of Emily's unknown lover. Later on in Dickinson's life, she began to fall in love with a man named Otis Lord. Dickinson and Lord wrote each other constantly. Dickinson refused Lord's marriage proposal, but they continued to write to each other. Emily Dickinson's, “If You Were Coming in the Fall”, portrays a theme of love and time, a tone of distress, and a certain purpose.

Emily Dickinson stresses the theme of death in her poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” It seems as if she likes to explore and question the experience of mortality. Within her poem, she creates conceits that compare death to a lover and tries to explain the process of death. Dickinson tentatively approaches the theme of mortality and questions what the actual experience of death is like rather than avoiding it. Poems that usually have a theme of death revolve around the fear of dying and the worry that there is not enough time within a lifetime, however, Dickinson uses personified metaphors to describe the process of dying and shows curiosity throughout her poem rather than fear of running out of time.

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.

In this poem Dickinson makes the reader aware that death is an everyday event but can change the lives of the ones that are the closest to that person. When death becomes a reality the family seems to realize that the smaller things are very important, “We noticed the smaller things- Things overlooked before/ By this great light upon our Minds Italicized-as ‘twere” (lines 5,6,7,8). The things that everyday people do not slow down to see, become significant when the realization comes that there is someone that will not get to enjoy those same small things.

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense

In Emily Dickinson’s lyrical poem “There’s a certain slant of light” she describes a revelation that is experienced on cold “winter afternoons.” Further she goes to say that this revelation of self “oppresses, like the Heft of Cathedral Tunes” and causes “Heavenly Hurt”, yet does not scare for it is neither exterior nor permanent. This only leaves it to be an internal feeling, and according to Dickinson that is where all the “Meanings” lie. There’s no way for this feeling to be explained, all that is known is that it is the “Seal Despair”, and an “imperial affliction”. These descriptions have a rather powerful connotation in showing the oppressive nature of his sentiment. There is an official mark of despair and an imperial affliction