Hope Is There

What is hope? I think hope is a feeling of wanting something to happen. According to Lisel Mueller, written in 1976, her poem “Hope” is about how hope could be found everywhere and is part of everything, even in the roughest situations. I think the theme of this poem is that hope is present, even if it is extremely hard to find. Mueller uses many metaphors to describe hope as if it were something else.

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.

The poem “Because I Could Not Stop Death” by Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite poems since high school. I chose this poem due to the fact that that Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite poets, I personally love her dark, and mysterious poems. Indeed, people believed she was a little messed up in the head, but I believe she was just misunderstood. Additionally, this poem definitely brought back terrifying memories. When couple years ago, I got into a horrible car accident with a drunk driver, the accident was so traumatizing that I recall seeing my life flash before my eyes, it was like my soul was retracing my steps. In this poem, Emily is in a carriage riding around familiar places that she was been to since she was a young child, which to me it sounds like she was retracing her steps. It does represent a personal value due the fact that I believe life is short and one really never knows when it is there time to go.

The first poem that I would like to examine is Because I could not stop for death by Emily Dickinson. This poem is about someone being dead, but no one knows that until the very end of this poem. The poem in the beginning states that a gentleman has come for the speaker, and the speaker states that she can not stop for death, she does not want to die but realizes that is naturally happens to all human beings. So the gentleman wants to take her on a ride on his horse carriage. The speaker does go along on the ride, and is very calm and easy going in the beginning of the poem. She stays positive while looking at the view of children playing at recess which makes her remember her own childhood. The only reason she is staying so positive is due to the fact she does not realize where they are headed. While on their journey she sees the setting sun, which actually means mature years getting older and heading toward the end of life. When the speaker talks about being “dews drew quivering and chill” so it may be morning, she is also cold because the only thing she is wearing is a gown. “We pasued before a House that seemed A swelling of the ground- The Roof was scarcely visible-The Cornice-in the Ground.” This stanza basically says that the speaker has met her new home which turns out to be a grave. The swelling ground, a roof that is hard to see mean the top of the casket. That is when it hits the speaker that she is buried there, she also comes to the conclusion that she has

Hope is a lot of things that we use today. Today, I hoped that I would pass my chemistry test and at most only be insufficient in one class. A lot of people use hope just like me when I took the test. Another example is, our basketball team hopes to win and I hope I won't have to go to summer school. Hope is a big things that we should never let go, if you do no one will like the consequences.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson provided some of the most perfect, pure and powerful poems during the 19th century. Born on December 10, 1830, Emily lived a secluded life and eventually dropped out of school. While living a secluded life in her family home, Dickinson started to write poetry in her teenage years. Even though she never dared to venture outside the house much, Emily unraveled her hidden talent of writing poetry. Unfortunately, Emily's work did not reach the eyes and ears of the public until her death when her younger sister discovered to hidden masterpieces. In one of Emily's popular poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” applies perfect creativity, pure use of literary devices, and a powerful theme.

Many people when told the name Emily Dickinson will immediately think of her common themes of death and her very personal and psychological poems. However what doesn't receive as much credit as it should is the form of her poems. It is very clear when analyzing Dickinson’s poetry that she knew exactly what she was doing and that there is intent behind every word, capital letter and dash mark. Emily Dickinson utilizes unconventional punctuation, an emphasis on meter rather than rhyme, and unusual grammatical choices to develop her unique and amazing poetry.

Throughout the poem, Dickinson capitalize words even though it's not a proper noun and it's not the beginning of a sentence. I believe she capitalize different words to capture the reader’s attention and warn them that the word has a powerful meaning in the poem. “Truths” is one of the words that Dickson capitalizes in the poem. Dickson uses a simile in the poem to compare the truth to lightning. The truth and lighting is powerful but also terrifying at times.

From experiencing pain and knowing the world around her Emily Dickinson wrote an encouraging and engaging poem. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking is an eight line, one stanza poem with a deep meaning. Portraying true pain and feeling in a positive light, thoughts and memories are shared through a small piece of writing. The defining theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem is, a good and selfless life is helping those in need because anyone can need

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a poem by Emily Dickinson. The title of this poem suggests the poet is communicating that the subject will be about resisting death. It can also be implied that the speaker may have cheated death since they “could not stop” when death came. The poet can also be communicating that the speaker is too busy with life to stop for death. She could be seen as too preoccupied of trying to live and work to the point where they don’t bother with the fact of the end of life itself. Possible connotations is that the speaker is speaking on the verge of death. Images that come to mind are the Grim Reaper with a scythe while reaching out to take lives of others.

The message is that those who are successful never really appreciate what they have. Only those that fail over and over, or who feel like giving up but never do are the ones that really value how incredible it is that they actually succeeded. The situation given by this poem is that it is not those who work longer and harder before succeeding that they can value it more, it is those who ne’er succeed who can count it sweetest to succeed. This is saying that nobody ever sincerely values success to its whole glory, because those that actually did wouldn’t be ungrateful. The following line changes the direction of this poem, it is not just about success, rather about craving and desire as well. In this line for a person to comprehend a nectar as quoted, it is really to comprehend all the glorious things of nectar, and to be content by this, not just to hold it down, which is said in the line “Requires sorest need.” That means, only those in hunger can really appreciate nourishment. We have the same situation that as soon as one has their meal, they are no longer hungry, and they quickly lose their love to appreciate food. The last two lines explain one last, figure of speech. In here Dickinson has show us to a fight, and she compares the views of both the winning and losing side. Not only can the soldiers on the winning side of that army not understand the same appreciation of

Who are you?’, and ‘The Soul selects her own Society’, I relate to them in terms of theme and tone, form and style, meter and rhyme, punctuation and syntax, and diction in the way are applied in passing the message across. Dickinson wrote about what she was familiar with and intrigued her through her own personal observation, and thus she applied images from nature, law, religion, commerce, fashion, medicine, music, and domestic activities in investing universal themes, such as the wonders associated with nature, the identity of the individual self, immorality, fear, sex, love, and death. ‘Success is counted sweetest’ poem articulates its homiletic point using the first two lines, ‘success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne’er succeed’, to imply that people seem to acutely desire things when they do not have access to them, and thus the symbol of triumph can only be understood by the individual who needs it, such as a defeated dying man clearly understands the meaning of victory as compared to a victorious army. ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ poem derives the homiletic style from psalms and other religious hymns. Considering the first two lines, ‘Hope is the thing with feathers…/That perches in the soul…’ metaphorically describes hope as a bird that sings in the soul, which cannot be abashed. While ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’ poem illustrates the mischievous defense

According to “poets.org”, Emily Dickinson is a famous American Poet Romantic period, in her poems published in 1775, with the theme of death as much as about 600. Song or express these fearless in the face of death when death, with death or express romantic counterparts, express or memorial for the dead, or alive express nostalgia and so forth. This article will use the cognitive poetic theory of conceptual metaphor and figure - background theory of Dickinson 's most prestigious a "death poem", "Because I could not stop for Death" interpretation. Study how the author by initials, alliteration, parallelism sentence, etc. to express their thoughts and feelings, but also the reader feels her open-minded attitude towards life and death for a unique perspective.

In conclusion, in Dickinson’s poem, she writes about death from the perspective of a deceased person thinking about the day they died. Dickinson experienced the death of many people close to her, which is believed to be the cause of the topics of most her poems being about death. “The Chariot” focuses on the life that is left behind, and shows her view that death is not to be feared since it is just a part of life, shown in how she personifies death as a gentleman.

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself / and what I shall assume you shall assume” (Whitman 1-2). These lines not only open up the beginning of one the best poems of the American Romantic period, but they also represent a prominent theme of one of this period’s best poet, Walt Whitman. In Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, Whitman deals with his time period’s most prominent theme of democracy. Whitman tells readers that they must not only observe the democratic life but they must become one with it. As Whitman states, “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” (3). Democracy provides a connection with all people. It is as if Joseph Stella felt this connection and decided to depict it in his collection of paintings entitled “Americans in the Rough.” The individual is of no greater or lesser worth than anyone else. Beatrice Marovich states that, “It is a song for fellow Americans, about the American body politic” (349). An analysis of Song of Myself portrays that understanding and becoming one with democracy through political collectivity essentially sets the stage for the American democratic self. Joseph Stella does a great job of interpreting and depicting Whitman’s ideals of democracy through his illustrations representing every facet of an American democratic life.