Symbolism in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
This 5 page report discusses symbolism in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. In many of her poems, Dickinson celebrated her role as a transmitter of spiritual mysteries, intertwining faith and art. A very real aspect of the most transcendent of poetry is the elegant use of symbolism in a way that connects or inspires the reader. Dickinson provides literally hundreds of examples of that transcendence. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWemily.rtf

Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief'
[ send me this essay ]
A 3 page paper examining Emily Dickinson's poem. this essay looks at how Dickinson is able to use the cycles of the seasons to indicate the likelihood of the ongoing nature of man's consciousness as well. It examines in particular her word choices and development of theme. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Emilyd.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page explication of this poem by Emily Dickinson. The writer details the metaphors of the poem, its form and rhyme scheme, and critical views of its relationship to Dickinson's own life. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Soulsct.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed...'
[ send me this essay ]
4 page explication and analysis of Emily Dickinson's 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,' in which the writer attempts to explain Dickinson's purpose, meaning, use of metaphors, and so forth. This detailed analysis literally 'gets to the heart' of the poem. No Bibliography.
Filename: Liquor.wps

Emily Dickinson's Views On Death
[ send me this essay ]
Many of Emily Dickinson's 1775 poems deal with her beliefs concerning the process of death, the rituals surrounding death and the question of immortality. This 6 page paper focuses on three of her poems: 'After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes', 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' and 'I felt A Funeral In My Brain', where it can be seen that Ms. Dickinson did indeed believe in an afterlife and viewed death from the vantage point that it should be faced and celebrated with a sense of dignity. Her outlook toward organized religion and the rituals accompanying death was skeptical, if not cynical. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KTdicdth.wps

Sheltered From the Storm - The Lonely Life of Emily Dickinson as Reflected in Her Poetry
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper that examines the life of Emily Dickinson, the many contradictions that this life presented, and the resulting loneliness of this life that is reflected in her poetry. this essay includes a short synopsis of Dickinson's childhood as well as an examination of those few individuals who impacted her life, plus a discussion of the influence these events and individuals bore on both her life and works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: LCStorm.doc

Death and Emily Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
A five page paper looking at Emily Dickinson’s view of death as expressed in such poems as “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” and “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers.” The paper concludes that Dickinson feels that while one should not fear death, one should also make the most of life, for it doesn’t get better than this. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBdicki3.wps

Death and Emily Dickinson # 2
[ send me this essay ]
A five page paper looking at Emily Dickinson’s view of death as expressed in such poems as “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” and “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers.” The paper concludes that Dickinson feels that while one should not fear death, one should also make the most of life, for it doesn’t get better than this. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBdicki.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'I Send Two Sunsets'
[ send me this essay ]
A 4 page explication and analysis of Emily Dickinson's poem 'I Send Two Sunsets.' The paper demonstrates how through a comparison of the creation of a poem to the creation of a sunset, Dickinson creates a radical analogy of a human being's creative process with God's. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: Diffsun.wps

Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poem, “My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun” (1863)
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper which analyzes the Emily Dickinson poem, “My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun” (1863) in terms of its symbolism of master (man) vs. slave (woman) in a destructive marital relationship.
Filename: TGedgun.rtf

Emily Dickinson the Recluse
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper looking at the way Emily Dickinson’s reclusive lifestyle affected her poetry. Poems discussed include in “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” , “Further in Summer Than the Birds,” and “I Send Two Sunsets”. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBdickin.wps

Psychological Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poem, “My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun” (1863)
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper which analyzes the Emily Dickinson poem, “My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun” (1863), from a psychological perspective, specifically considering repressed anger about sexuality and gender roles, which reinforce inequality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TGedgun2.rtf

Emily Dickinson – A Look at Some of her Works
[ send me this essay ]
5 pages in length. Examines a group of poems by Emily Dickinson and focuses on her love of nature and her ability to make us smile with some of her metaphor.
Filename: JGAemily.wps

Emily Dickinson: After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
[ send me this essay ]
Poetry is defined, in part, as "that form of communication in which words are never simple equivalents of experience or perception. This 5 page paper argues that the poem, After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes, by Emily Dickinson, brings the reader to a place where the imaging and artful use of language provide a foundation for personal thought and insight concerning death and the process of death. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KTemdick.wps

Emily Dickinson's Positive View Of Death
[ send me this essay ]
A 9 page paper analyzing the aspects of Dickinson's thought which may have contributed to her unusually realistic and healthy view of death. Five of Dickinson's poems are discussed in considerable depth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Dickind.wps

Emily Dickinson & The Utter Pain Of Blank In Her Poetry
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper comparing two poems by Emily Dickinson -- 'Pain has an Element of Blank', and 'There is a pain so utter.' The writer concludes that one poem attempts to describe pain in terms of metaphors, while the other attempts to replicate the 'blankness' of true pain. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Dicpain.wps

Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief' # 2
[ send me this essay ]
A 3 page explication of Dickinson's poem. this essay notes that Dickinson's style strongly reflects the rhythms of the Protestant hymns she heard each Sunday in church. It also shows how she uses her unique ability to look closely at nature and the natural world to illustrate her reflections on the invisible and ineffable -- in short, how she uses nature to prove her articles of faith. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Emilyd2.wps

Religious Aspects of Emily Dickinson's Poetry
[ send me this essay ]
A 10 page paper which analyzes the religious aspects of Emily Dickinson's poetry, despite her professed religious ambivalence. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
Filename: TGedrel.wps

Emily Dickinson’s Life, As Defined Through Her Poetry
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper which examines how Emily Dickinson defined her life through her art of poetry, including identification of common themes, with examples from her poems, and also a consideration of how her Puritan background influenced her writing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TGemdksn.wps

Emily Dickinson / Life & Works
[ send me this essay ]
A 10 page paper discussing the life and works of this poet. Dickinson's favorite themes and reclusive lifestyle are analyzed with relevance to one another. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Emily.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'Apparently With No Surprise'
[ send me this essay ]
A 1 page essay on theme, imagery, and symbolic expression in this work by Dickinson. The writer also evaluates her technique and use of allusion. No Bibliography.
Filename: Dickin.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'A Bird Came Down the Walk'
[ send me this essay ]
This 5 page paper discusses the Dickinson poem 'A Bird Came Down The Walk' and the poet's use of tone, imagery, and figurative language. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Emilybir.wps

Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death..'
[ send me this essay ]
An insightful 3 page analysis of Dickinson's poem in which the writer describes theme, message, personification and so forth. No Bibliography.
Filename: Dickpoem.wps

Emily Dickinson As A Transcendentalist
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper analyzing whether the famous nineteenth-century poet can actually be considered a transcendentalist. Looking at evidence presented in several of her poems, the writer argues that Dickinson would like to have been such, but many of her fears and obsessions rose from her Calvinist background. The paper uses five of her poems -- 'These are the days when birds come back', 'I heard a fly buzz when I died', 'Because I could not stop for death,' 'Further in summer than the birds', and 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant' to support its thesis. No critical sources are cited.
Filename: Transdic.wps

Death and Nature in the Poems of Emily Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
A five page paper looking at a number of different poems by this seminal nineteenth-century American poet, in the light of her views about death and its role in the circle of life. Particular poems mentioned are: “Because I could not stop for Death,” “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” “I never felt at Home -- Below,” “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”, and “’Twas just this time, last year, I died.” Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBdicki2.wps

What Is Poetry ?
[ send me this essay ]
4 page paper that describes the essence and development of poetry. this essay presents considerations in regards to poetic themes, styles, and similar development that is present in this vastly diverse literary format. The writer stresses the concise nature of poetic structures and presents two poets, Emily Dickinson and Ogden Nash, as examples of individuals who both successfully display ‘poetic brevity.' Bibliography lists several sources.
Filename: Poetry.wps

Poetry As Crisis / A Study In Plath And Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper comparing these two poets in terms of the assertion that Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Specific poems discussed are Emily Dickinson's 'My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun' and Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Crispoet.wps

Success in Two Poems of Robinson and Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page essay analyzing a poem by Emily Dickinson, namely 'Success is Counted Sweetest,' and a poem by Edwin Robinson, named 'Richard Cory.' It gives an overview of what constitutes success and what each writer constitutes as success. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Robdick.wps, cory.wps

Transcendentalist Roots In Whitman & Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the ways in which Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson exhibited the influence of Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalism. The ideas expressed are supported by quotes from the literary works mentioned and several critical sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Tranroot.wps

On Friendship
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page essay that addresses the topic of true friendship. Using examples from Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and C.S. Lewis, the writer argues that friendship is the noblest of human attachments. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: 99pals.wps

Comparing Dickinson With Whitman
[ send me this essay ]
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were contemporaries in time and space but worlds apart in experience. This 5 page paper argues that the poems, A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman and A Spider Sewed At Night by Emily Dickinson are both nature poems that employ allusion and repetition to compare the spider with the soul of the writer. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KTdicwhi.wps

Dickinson’s A Spider Sowed At Night and Whitman’s Noiseless Patient Spider
[ send me this essay ]
A great many differences are seen when comparing the life experiences between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This 3 page paper argues that The style of A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman and A Spider Sewed At Night by Emily Dickinson is different, however, both poems can be categorized as 'nature' poems through the inclusion of the spider as metaphor for the soul. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KTspider.wps

Blake & Dickinson / The 'Nature' of God
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper analyzing the attitudes of William Blake and Emily Dickinson toward God as manifested in their poetry. The paper concludes that Blake's and Dickinson's theology ultimately derives from the observation of Nature and its processes, and both poets see reflected in the impersonality of Nature the impersonality of God. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Blakdick.wps

Loneliness and Alienation in William Shakespeare's Play, "Hamlet" and in Emily Dickinson's Poem, "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain" (#280)
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper which examines the relevance of loneliness and alienation in William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet" and Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain" (#280) in terms of man's situation in the contemporary world, specifically considering theme, incident, character, symbolism and atmosphere.
Filename: TGhamfun.wps

The Theme of Death and the Afterlife in Milton and Dickinson
[ send me this essay ]
This 10 page paper considers the theme of death as it is presented both by John Milton and Emily Dickinson, with a concentration on the way in which specific characters appear to lead others into the afterlife. this essay assesses the perspectives of both authors as presented in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Emily Dickinson’s poem 712, “Because I could not stop for Death...” Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: MHpoetry.wps

Not sure about a particular essay listed above?
Email us for a free, one page excerpt from it!