Poems are read by many for their personal entertainment and often rhyme. As such‚ these poems may also have a deeper meaning that only fewer people bother to seek out. Along with this‚ there is also an inevitable theme that lies within each and every poem made by one author merging all of their ideas into one. With this‚ two authors have made a series of poems that may have a depth far below the surface or literal meaning of them. Along with the meaning‚ the authors that made them also left an intended
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should all be glad that there isn’t a mirror that exists somewhere that shows you who you really are underneath it all. Emily Dickinson’s poems “A wounded deer leaps highest” and “To fight aloud is very brave” touch on this idea of outward appearances versus inward appearances and the importance behind both of them. Focusing just on outward appearances and its importance‚ these two poems metaphorically tell us how our outward appearances speak louder than inner. Outward appearances are more important
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Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson‚ in the first two stanzas‚ eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”‚ “it was not night”‚ “it was not frost”‚ “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch‚ as Dickinson compares
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Explication on Emily Dickinson Poem: Deterioration of the Brain Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral in my Brain‚” 340 [280] exemplifies two meanings in the poem. The speaker is either losing her mind or she is having some serious pains in her head that makes her wish she were deceased. The speaker sight sees the machineries of the human mind under pressure and attempts to copy the stages of a mental breakdown through the overall metaphor of a funeral. The mutual ceremonials of a funeral are used by
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novel verges on turning into something else‚ like poetry or drama. In Wuthering Heights‚ realism in presenting Yorkshire landscape and life and the historical precision of season‚ dates‚ and hours co-exist with the dreamlike and the unhistorical; Brontë refuses to be confined by conventional classifications. The protagonists’ wanderings are motivated by flight from previously-chosen goals‚ so that often there is a pattern of escape and pursuit. Consider Catherine’s marriage for social position‚
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WD Commentary Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson‚ in the first two stanzas‚ eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”‚ “it was not night”‚ “it was not frost”‚ “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch‚ as
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Poem 823 declares that humans’ actions will not be the Lord’s test‚ but their intentions behind the actions will be. The Lord knows that his creation will make mistakes‚ which is why His son died to forgive humans of their sins. He looks to see that those faults come from a heart with pure intentions and that His people learn from their errors in an attempt to better themselves. The narrator‚ although unknown‚ speaks to all of humankind in this poem‚ including herself. The speaker has likely reached
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In her poem‚ #465‚ Emily Dickinson’s speaker allows the reader to experience an ironic reversal of conventional expectation of the moment of death in the mid-1800s‚ as the speaker finds nothing but an eerie darkness at the end of her life. Although the speaker reflects upon her life from beyond the grave‚ she remembers her final moments in the still room. In fact‚ the speaker recalls the room‚ “like the Stillness in the Air — / Between the Heaves of Storm” (3-4). Here‚ the speaker compares the aura
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“O say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” To people like Francis Scott Key‚ the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner”‚ the American flag is a symbol of men and women standing up for what they believed in‚ and even giving up their life for it. These people care greatly about the American flag being honored and respected‚ and I am too. Our flag has three colors that have become very important to our country: red‚ white‚ and blue. The white
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was firstly cultivated by their father Patrick Bronte. Patrick Bronte was ‘a poet‚ writer‚ and polemicist’ (Wikipedia.org)‚ who ‘was the author of Cottage Poems‚ The Rural Minstrel‚ numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles‚ and various rural poems’ (Wikipedia.org). He was an intelligent person‚ and he studied theology‚ general subjects‚ and ancient and modern history in Cambridge. His literary attainment influenced his children deeply. When Bronte sisters were young‚ they were allowed to read freely
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