Metaphors In Poetry

Essentially I feel that each poem in its own “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), “Death, be not proud” (John Donne), and “Because I could not stop for Death” (Emily Dickinson) are unique in their own way however, I feel that two poems in particular may show more similarity in each other versus all three being compared at once although, I will be comparing and contrasting all three poems towards the end of this essay. For example, When reading “Funeral Blues” (W. H. Auden), I felt a greater sense of similarity to “Because I could not stop for death” (Emily Dickinson) versus “Death, be not proud” (John Donne) so I will begin to discuss those poems first. When comparing each poem I will

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were both poets who wrote about the concept of death. The two poets illustrated different perspectives on death. Whitman identified with the entirety and truth of death; whereas, Dickinson pinpoints the dramatization of death. Walt Whitman’s message on death portrayed in his poetry is more compelling than that of Emily Dickinson’s. Whitman discusses the favorableness of death, the verisimilitude that pertains to death, and his elaborate explanations on how we humans understand death.

Overall this poem consisting of six stanzas written by Emily Dickinson was about how the speaker apprehends death. Emily Dickinson wrote this poem to express her thoughts on how accepting death was. However just because death from illnesses and accidents were normal there must have been a reason to why Emily

To begin with, both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson spoke about not only a person dying, but the people who were left to live through that person’s

For many years people have been able to share their feelings and emotions through art,songs, novels, poems, etc. These artists, musicians, authors, and poets have been able to connect with others. For example, poems can be interpreted differently by readers. A poem has the flexibility to relate to anyone who reads it. There are many different types of poems in the sense of structure, which inlucudes the rhyme scheme, stanzas, and lines. With in the structure of the poem the reader may encounter similes, metaphors, alliteration, personification, and paradox along with many other literary terms. These literary terms are what make poetry unique and engaging for readers. Readers are able to ponder the meaning of the poem and the complexity of

     Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous authors in American History, and a good amount of that can be attributed to her uniqueness in writing. In Emily Dickinson's poem 'Because I could not stop for Death,' she characterizes her overarching theme of Death differently than it is usually described through the poetic devices of irony, imagery, symbolism, and word choice.

Although she did not wish to share them with anyone, they were eventually published and enjoyed by the world. One of the poems, “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, reflects the author’s depth in writing. In this poem, Emily Dickinson uses metaphor, personification, and imagery to create an alternative image of death. Firstly, Dickinson used metaphor to give death a sense of warmth. Throughout the poem, “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, many metaphors provide a soothing consciousness upon the subject of death.

The poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is about one’s journey with death. How could one’s journey with death ever be a journey into the sunset. The poet's use of imagery, paradox, and caesura throughout the poem helps reveal the poem’s message. The poet uses imagery to describe certain scenes. The poem is describing someone’s journey with death and the stops along the way.

Poems are like snowflakes. While no two are the same, they all have common structures and themes. One prevalent theme in poetry is that of death, which is present in both “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Dickinson perceives death as a gentleman, while Frost perceives death as loneliness, which provides insight on how the time periods of the poems, the genders of the authors, and the authors’ personal experiences influence literature.

First, Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” is obvious in its theme of death in comparison to the others listed in the previous paragraph. The narrator of this poem uses a figure of speech to describe Death as a kind person taking the time to pick her up since she was too busy for him (Dickinson 566). Death is described as warm and kind throughout most of this poem, with only two stanzas depicting a sinister feeling when she actually realizes that she is dead. The speaker tells about a carriage ride with Death, a metaphor for the act of dying. This poem, in fact, is built on metaphors, alliterations, anaphora, paradox and it’s written in lyric form; it’s got a beat to it when read. The poem contains six stanzas with four lines in each making it a quatrain. “Because I could not stop for Death” also uses symbols in its text to establish the speaker’s lifetime. The speaker tells of the carriage ride past the school where children

Emily Dickinson portrays death in her poems in a few different ways. For example, in her poem “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” she was portraying that her mind was dying, and was having a funeral for her mind. She says at one point "And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down-"(p 87) which I think means that as she was being lowered into the ground, that her mind was done thinking, reasoning and understanding. In her poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, she could not stop for death but death was going to stop for her. He came in the carriage to take her to her grave. She says “We slowly drove – He knew no haste, And I had put away, My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility” (p 91), and by this I think she means that

Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem, Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has expressed her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in the rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again into this world making choice between a world full of trouble, pain or a heaven that brings solitude and peace. Besides, Dickinson through the poem explains many experiences of her in words that cannot be described very easily, which is why in order to replicate the feeling of insanity, she used a wide variety of literary techniques that include symbolism, imagery, metaphor, simile, capitalization of words, use of dashes and different other structures.

‘Poetry of Departures’ by Philip Larkin is a poem that bears uncanny semblance to life today – especially that of the current-day youth. The poem, apart from being a good read, is a very apt description of how young people tend to go about their lives these days – mostly bored, slightly mechanical in outlook, wanting to do more but failing to go noticed as more than a mere cog in the machine that’s life.

The meaning of a poem can be expressed through literary devices such as a metaphor or symbolism.

Emily Dickinson And the Theme of Death      Emily Dickenson, an unconventional 19th century poet, used death as the theme for many of her poems. Dickenson's poems offer a creative and refreshingly different perspective on death and its effects on others. In Dickenson's poems, death is often personified, and is also assigned to personalities far different from the traditional "horror movie" roles. Dickenson also combines imaginative diction with vivid imagery to create astonishingly powerful poems.