Emily Dickerson Essay

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Emily Dickinson’s Figurative Language Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. She was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived in a small New England farming town her whole life. Over the course of her life, she wrote over 1,755 poems. Nobody knew about any on Emily’s poems, because she was isolated and not many people really knew her other than family. After Emily passed, her younger sister, Vinnie, did as Emily asked and burned the majority of her poems except for some that Emily had made into books. Emily’s sister published these poems four years after Emily’s death. I think that Emily lived a very deep and even more isolated life. In this essay, I am going to highlight just a few of the many types of figurative language in just a few of Emily Dickerson’s Poems. In the first poem on page 751 called “This is my letter to the World” by Dickinson, she uses personification. On lines 1 and 2 she writes “This is my letter to the World Than never Wrote to Me-”. In these lines, Dickinson is expressing to the reader that she never really got much of a response from the world after she expressed her feelings towards it. This use of figurative language helps me understand by helping me see how Dickinson feels that people feel about her. Another poem by Emily Dickinson that includes a example of figurative language is the poem “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” on page 757. This poem includes a simile which is a figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common, using like or as. The simile is this poem one line 9. Emily writes “A Quartz contentment, like a stone-”. This simile helps me to better understand that a Quartz is something that is hard, with no feeling or emotion. A third poem by Dickinson is “I heard a Fly buzz When I Died” on page 758. This poem has a simile which is on lines

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