Emily Dickinson's If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

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

For Dickinson, sight is the most valuable sense that allowed her to see the world and act based upon whatever situations were thrown at her. In her poems, it seems that “darkness” would be a metaphor for the uncertainty, subsequently allowing “sight” to be a metaphor for how we tend to react to this uncertainty. Her two poems, “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” seem to share the same representation and message that sight isn’t only a physical sense, but more importantly it’s the way our minds can adjust to see problematic situations with a different outlook.

Death is the concern in of both Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight,” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. Moreover, while these two poets use similar themes in their works, the execution and tone of their respective pieces could not be more antithetical. More to the point, Thomas’ poem paints death and oblivion as something deserving of fear and dread, and even though dying is an immutable fact in our world, man will always feel the need to have, “Rage, Rage against the dying of the light”. However, Dickinson does not let the fear of death consume her, so much so, that in her poem she embraces death as nothing less than a gentleman, who in her own words “kindly stopped for me”. At the end of it all, Dylan Thomas’ poem is a loud boisterous proclamation about the desperation of man to hold on to life and to leave something behind but ultimately realizing they cannot, while Dickinson’s is a quiet reflection about the cyclical nature of life and death and the peace the end brings.

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.

Have you lost someone close to you in your life? It is difficult to deal with and my group and I read the poem “If You Were Coming in the Fall” be Emily Dickinson. The poem talks about a person talking about waiting for someone. During Dickinson’s life she lost many loved ones like family, close friends and her professor. This fact is relevant to the poem because the poem could be talking about meeting her loved ones again in the not so near future. After reading the poem I believe that the theme to “If You Were Coming in the Fall” by Emily Dickinson, is that when a person loses someone, the waiting will make them desperate to see that person again.

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

In the poem, “If I can't stop one heart from breaking” written by Emily Dickinson is about how if you help other people or things, and not only think about yourself all the time, then you will not live a harsh, and careless life. Also you may not be able to fix everything or stop something, but if you at least try it's almost worth the same thing. In the poem Emily is showing that is she does all

“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’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a remarkable masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call Emily Dickinson’s poem a masterpiece with strange “haunting power.”

My poem is “If You Were Coming in the Fall “ by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was hugely considered an introvert during her life and it was surprising that she wrote this poem. Emily also suffered a lot of death during her life so probably adds to the mood of this poem. This poem revolves around a woman who waits for lover to one day come home. The woman would progressively mention how she would sacrifice different feats of time to see her lover. She starts with the seasons, then years, and eternity. Thus, the woman is annoyed that her man could pop in at any time and the suspense kills her. The theme of the poem is people will sacrifice moments of their lives to spend time with the people that they love.

“If you were coming in the Falls” by Emily Dickinson was wrote in the 1860's. Emily Dickinson was an American poet, and lived from 1830 to 1886. It was not published until 1955, “If you were coming in the Falls” is a yearning work, of a lady that would happily wait forever as long there is certainty of return. The poem leave's you with a sense of disparity, because of the uncertantiy it close's with.

In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death “ (448), the speaker of the poem is a woman who relates about a situation after her death. The speaker personifies death as a polite and considerate gentleman who takes her in a carriage for a romantic journey; however, at the end of this poem, she finishes her expedition realizing that she has died many years ago.

on Emily Dickinson’s poem “I dwell in Possibility” we can observe a specific symbolic image on the poem. This image is evoked since the very first line of the poem “I dwell in Possibility--” this line starts everything, it ignites the symbol and it just keeps going. The way it might be interpreted is how she dwells on endless possibilities. Daydreaming, creating endless scenarios and situations. But then on the last lines of the verse “The Spreading wide of my narrow Hands To gather paradise— “these last lines illustrate how at the end of the day, even though we are striving and trying to reach paradise, we end up crashing with the reality.

At first Glance, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” by Emily Dickinson is puzzling, even meaningless. However, upon further analysis it is clear that the poet has made several deliberate choices to assist the reader in discerning the poems meaning. Her deployment of poetic devices correlates to the narrative she is writing, allowing the reader to deeply perceive the poems message. Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” provides commentary on an individual’s ability to decide who can enter the most intimate parts of her life, which the reader can empathize with through figurative language, repetitive sounds, and enjambment.

The one poem really spoke a lot about the way Emily Dickinson felt the poem “You left me” was unclear whether it is a physical and or emotional separation, the poem was written because this is showing her state of mind and what she thought throughout her poems, in this poem it is mysterious about who it is to, whether it’s indirectly or directly towards someone, the last stanza her doubt of her ever being together with a man and she is left in despair.