stine Mack
Mrs. McKenna
English ll Honors
5 March 2017
Thesis: Emily Dickinson is master of imagery because she uses imagery for ambiguity and to exemplify the other devices in her works which themes are death, nature, love, and pain.
Emily Dickinson's past has to do with her future writings and her foundation for her poems.
Many poets have their own style of writing; their own uniqueness
Emily dickinson brings out her ambiguity in her imagery and poems
Emily is a master of imagery
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Where: Amherst, Massachusetts in the family homestead
Parents: Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson
Date she's born: December 10, 1830
Family life: Brothers: austin dickinson oldest Sisters: Lavinia youngest (Was close to her brother and
She focuses on these kinds of subjects because they cannot be defined, so she accentuates them in her poems. She finds them essential.
She uses indefinite subjects for the purpose of making them ambiguous and having more than one meaning to to the subject
II. Emily Dickinson depicts her theme through her imagery.
Death
poem : “Because i could not stop for death” a. I analyzed the poem to be about her dying and how she cannot stop it.
She used imagery to show how the suitor stopped for her and gave her a ride to her tombstone
“We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.”
3. The imagery exemplifies the suitor bringing her to her death and how
She uses imagery when she's looking back on her old days and feelings of nostalgia are kicking in on the ride to her death. She is appreciating her past.
“We passed the school where children played youth
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
Shows ambiguity because this can be interpreted in many different ways such as:
c. She is looking back on her life and feels nostalgia or
d. She is describing the different stages of life which are youth, adulthood, and golden years. .
B. Nature
Poem : “Hope is the thing with the feathers”
I analyzed the poem to be about a bird and trying to fly and keeping hope
She uses a bird (subject) to exemplify the theme
She used imagery to show that hope is always in the darkest of times and he worst of times. She wants us to see that even through the worst of times, hope will always be by our side.
“And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.”
She is stating that hope will always be there for you at no cost.
C. Truth
Poem: “Tell all the truth but tell it
The poem “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker is about a girl who visits her grandmother. In the poem, the girl and the grandmother talk about their usual things, like how she is going in school. The girl responds with how school is going good, but she knows that her grandmother would not approve of her social circle and what they do and talk about. The narrator does an excellent job of using imagery and personification to help the reader understand on an emotional level of how the student may be feeling while sitting on the porch with her grandmother. One example of personification in this poem would be: “About the nights I cried into the familiar / heartsick panels of the quilt she made me,” (26-27). This use of personification indicates that the panels of the quilt are heartsick because the girl cries each night into her quilt because she misses her grandmother dearly. In Regina Barreca’s poem “Nighttime Fires, the narrator explains her complex view of her father. Imagery plays a big role in this poem because it vividly illustrates the girl’s impression of her father’s...
Collier’s use of imagery in the second paragraph shows Lizabeth’s inner growth throughout the years of her becoming a young woman. “Whenever the memory of those marigolds falses across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it and remains long after the picture has faded.” (Collier, 2) The author uses imagery by saying the images of marigolds flashes across Lizabeth’s mind. It gives the reader insight of how the flowers are symbolic to her. To Lizabeth, the marigolds bring back the day in her life where she was no longer an innocent child. “One day returns to me with special clarity for some reason, perhaps because it was the beginning of the
This gives the effect that although there is mass devastation, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, in this case for the eagle, the leftover remains of a carcass. However, as seen throughout the poem this isn’t the case for everyone and everything as the dead or dying clearly outnumber those prospering from the drought. This further adds to the miserable and discouraging mood of the poem. Other poetic devices are also used during the course of the
Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she spent most of her life with her younger sister, older brother, semi-invalid mother, and domineering father in the house that her prominent family owned. As a child, she was curious and was considered a bright student and a voracious reader. She graduated from Amherst Academy in 1847, and attended a female seminary for a year, which she quitted as she considered that “’I [she] am [was] standing alone in rebellion [against becoming an ‘established Christian’].’” (Kort 1) and was homesick. Afterwards, she excluded herself from having a social life, as she took most of the house’s domestic responsibilities, and began writing; she only left Massachusetts once.
One of Emily Dickinson’s greatest skills is taking the familiar and making it unfamiliar. In this sense, she reshapes how her readers view her subjects and the meaning that they have in the world. She also has the ability to assign a word to abstractness, making her poems seemingly vague and unclear on the surface. Her poems are so carefully crafted that each word can be dissected and the reader is able to uncover intense meanings and images. Often focusing on more gothic themes, Dickinson shows an appreciation for the natural world in a handful of poems. Although Dickinson’s poem #1489 seems disoriented, it produces a parallelism of experience between the speaker and the audience that encompasses the abstractness and unexpectedness of an event.
Emily Dickinson is one of the great visionary poets of nineteenth century America. In her lifetime, she composed more poems than most modern Americans will even read in their lifetimes. Dickinson is still praised today, and she continues to be taught in schools, read for pleasure, and studied for research and criticism. Since she stayed inside her house for most of her life, and many of her poems were not discovered until after her death, Dickinson was uninvolved in the publication process of her poetry. This means that every Dickinson poem in print today is just a guess—an assumption of what the author wanted on the page. As a result, Dickinson maintains an aura of mystery as a writer. However, this mystery is often overshadowed by a more prevalent notion of Dickinson as an eccentric recluse or a madwoman. Of course, it is difficult to give one label to Dickinson and expect that label to summarize her entire life. Certainly she was a complex woman who could not accurately be described with one sentence or phrase. Her poems are unique and quite interestingly composed—just looking at them on the page is pleasurable—and it may very well prove useful to examine the author when reading her poems. Understanding Dickinson may lead to a better interpretation of the poems, a better appreciation of her life’s work. What is not useful, however, is reading her poems while looking back at the one sentence summary of Dickinson’s life.
The works of Emily Dickinson will forever be remembered and the connections she made with readers throughout the centuries will be lasting. Her lifestyle was different than the poets of her time, but her isolation in her home and many tragedies in her life led to the beautiful and unique poems and letters she wrote. Emily Dickinson’s works changed American Literature and any of the people that read her work.
As we live in constant fear of death, we lose control of our lives. Dickinson's use of imagery and language in mundane terms acts as the epitome of how we live out our days. Although they are done in different ways, both poems captivate the reader emotionally and physically. Emily Dickinson's style of writing paved the way for other authors to open up emotionally to their audience and reveal who they were as a poet and writer.
death as the subject of several of her poems. In her poem "Because I Could Not
Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. As a child she was brought up into the Puritan way of life. She was born on December 10, 1830 and died fifty-six years later. Emily lived isolated in the house she was born in; except for the short time she attended Amherst Academy and Holyoke Female Seminary. Emily Dickinson never married and lived on the reliance of her father. Dickinson was close to her sister Lavinia and her brother Austin her whole life. Most of her family were members of the church, but Emily never wished to become one. Her closest friend was her sister-in-law Susan. Susan was Emily's personal critic; as long as Emily was writing she asked Susan to look her poems over.
Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest woman poets. She left us with numerous works that show us her secluded world. Like other major artists of nineteenth-century American introspection such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville, Dickinson makes poetic use of her vacillations between doubt and faith. The style of her first efforts was fairly conventional, but after years of practice she began to give room for experiments. Often written in the meter of hymns, her poems dealt not only with issues of death, faith and immortality, but with nature, domesticity, and the power and limits of language.
The first physical aspect is her actual passing through on her journey with?Death?. The other meaning is that?They are also "passing" out of time into eternity? Melani. Dickinson tries to emphasize that they are not only passing through on the journey, but passing on in life and moving to?Eternity? 24.
bird as the metaphor of the poem to get the message of the poem across
Imagery helps us put a short movie together of the events that are happening, in this case we get to see Mrs. Mallard’s emotions and the characteristics of Richard Cory from the point of view of the town. Imagery is among the many other literary devices used in both of these literary works. The literary works also show a bit irony specially with their endings. Imagery uses our five sense to make comparisons, and help us visually the
Throughout Emily Dickinson’s poetry there is a reoccurring theme of death and immortality. The theme of death is further separated into two major categories including the curiosity Dickinson held of the process of dying and the feelings accompanied with it and the reaction to the death of a loved one. Two of Dickinson’s many poems that contain a theme of death include: “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” and “After great pain, a formal feeling comes.”