Essays on Emily Dickinson

Dickinson’s Biography Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most influential poets. This 19th-century poet, whose mysterious life challenged the prevailing definitions of poetry, tried new expressions to free language from its traditional limitations. It carved a new model of the character of the speaker. Speakers…

It is difficult to imagine how we will one day die and what we will undergo through this process but in Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (Dickinson 42), it encaptures the complexity of death beautifully in only 20 lines. Like…

The poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (340)” by the infamous Emily Dickinson suggests many topics such as entering a world of a psychotic episode, experiencing the death and/or burial of something within the mind, an explanation of the feeling of self obliteration,…

Introduction The unconscious refers to experiences that are beyond one’s control and that occur without one being aware. Within those with mental illnesses, many people feel disconnected from themselves and begin to feel a deep sense of loneliness and anxiety. During one’s fall into madness,…

Introduction A theme of the descent into madness is developed both in Emily Dickenson’s “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” and in Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper. Each story gradually depicts progressing insanity of its main character; which is faster in “I Felt a…

Introduction Emily Dickinson’s, I Felt a Funeral in my Brain is an extremely somber poem which portrays a person who is going insane. The general overview of the poem is that there is a funeral being taken place in her brain. There is a funeral…

In early America, to capture the feat of being female poet was extremely rare and was no easy task. Phyllis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson challenged what it meant to be a good poet, though for two completely different reasons. In Wheatley’s poetry, religious repetition and…

In stanzas 1-3 the character understands the situations that she is in at the moment. The sudden shift in tone in the fourth stanza enables us to examine how Emily Dickinson describes the comfortableness and closeness of the character of the poem, as she is…

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, while considered extraordinary poets of their time, had contrasting personalities and took inspiration from different ideas. Whitman was popular and forthright; while Dickinson was introverted and bashful. Due to having distinctive personalities, they wrote about different ideas. Dickinson’s poem, “324,”…

Poetry Essay In “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas and “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” by Emily Dickinson presents the topic of death. However, the two personas in the poems have different approaches on this topic….