Emily Dickinson Poems by Year

The narrator witnesses a battle and comes to the realization that only the losing side completely understands success through the sheer passion and desperation that comes from watching the winning side; the speaker of the poem is suggesting that people long for and desire the things that they don't have. The want for nectar is an example of that. Also, the dying man comprehends victory better than the winning army. Success is counted sweetest; Emily Dickinson The narrator describes a euphoric feeling of being with a person, potentially a lover; This poem is an extended exclamation and it expresses a...

The narrator references the greatest lost, that of two of her friends. She has even begged God to give her strength to endure it; God heard and sent her two new friends; she questions her faith in god because even though god brings you things, he still takes them away "I never lost as much but twice" Those that succeed never really appreciate it; those that fail understand how awesome it'd be to succeed. Only those starving can truly appreciate food. The soldiers that won the battle don't appreciate the victory as much as the losers; those that lost can...

Emerson mostly known for his essays, not poems abolitionist minister What view of nature does Emerson take? Nature can inspire the human spirit Central idea of "Self-Reliance"? rely on your own instincts Why does emerson allude to individuals such as Socrates, Jesus, and Galileo in "Self-Reliance"? to inspire readers through the example of their struggles because "to be great is to be misunderstood" What is Thoreau's philosophical idea in Walden? individualism What does Thoreau hope to convey with the description of the path his feet had worn to the pond within a week? (Walden) Human beings fall to readily into...

The opening line "tell all the truth but tell it slant" is the same as that of the title. Emily Dickinson does this because she wants the reader to realism that the poem's main idea is that truth is stated indirectly toward us. It is supposedly too powerful to be taken in all at once and that we are unprepared and not willing to admit to it. The word "slant" could have several meanings to it, for it could mean that something is not straight or it can give greater significance to a letter or word that is slanted or...

What is a controlling image? A. a pattern or beat created using stressed and unstressed syllables B. an image that repeats throughout an entire poem C. the use of similar-sounding words in poetry D. an image that appears just once in a poem B. Read the poem "I'm Nobody" by Emily Dickinson and answer the question that follows. I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too? Then there's a pair of us Don't tell! they'd advertise — you know! How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell one's name...

Tell all the truth but tell it slant By Emily Dickinson   Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —   Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--- Emily Dickinson poem...

Paraphrase stanza two of "We grow accustomed to the Dark". What is the central idea of this stanza? We don't rush out into the dark. We walk slowly at first, until we get used to the night. Then, as our eyes adjust to the dark, we walk more confidently. The central idea is that we walk slowly until we are used to the darkness. What does Dickinson mean 'Beyond the literal meanings of the words when she says "We grow accustomed to the Dark?" With this interpretation in mind, consider the lines, "And so of larger—Darkness--/ Those Evenings of the...

Dickinson is known for the usage of emotion in her poetry. One topic she wrote about was death. Early on in Emily career she was capable of pressing her reflections on the precise moment of death into remarkably concise expressions, stated Porter(67). In many poems, Dickinson doesn't Just talk of death, she personifies it. An example is the poem Because I could not stop for Death. Dying is compared to an unexpected ride in a horse-drawn carriage(Daniel 391). Also, Dickinson thought the suffering involved in personal relationships captured the impulse of poetry(Chase 191). This idea of pain expressed in the...

Slant Rhyme a kind of consonance (relation between words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ: add/read, up/step, peer/pare, while/hill). Eye Rhyme rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation, such as watch/match, love/move, through/enough. True Rhyme identity of terminal sound between accented syllables, usually occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse. The correspondence of sound is based on the vowels and succeeding consonants of the accented syllables, which must, for a true rhyme, be preceded by different consonants. Thus "fan"...

In evaluating Emily Dickinson’s biography and poems, I surmised that excluding the love of father, brother, and her deceased nephew, Emily’s knowledge of romantic love, by first-hand experience, is questionable. The pure-of-mind reader may believe that what familiarity she had about love matters might have been based mainly on her extensive reading of literature. Emily was an avid reader and was particularly fond of, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Dickens. She especially doted on the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot (182-183). According to “The Norton Anthology’s” biographical sketch on Emily, she had never married or had...