Although death is one of the most used themes of Emily Dickinson in her poems, the readers wouldn’t feel boring because those poems provide us with different perspective of life and death. Through Dickinson’s poems, we are able to see death as sometimes gentle, sometimes menacing, and sometimes simply inevitable. However, these different understandings of death could be her way of imagining, knowing, or informing us what death is. Most of these poems of Emily Dickinson are written in quatrains and usually rhyming only on the second and fourth lines. Other stanzas show triplets or pairs of couplets, and some employ longer, looser, and more complicated stanzas.
Sentences ans sections of poems are repeated which gives the impression of Hinley slowly losing her mind throughout the poem. Duffy uses language very effectively, in parts of the poem almost creating a sense of sympathy for Hinley at the same time as making her seem evil. When reading the poem Duffy’s opinion of Hinley is hard to understand. She seems to sympathies with Hinley in some areas of the poem however in other areas the poem emphasises how evil Hinley is. During the first stanza Duffy creates the impression that anyone could become a murderer and this creates the impression that she seems interested in Hinley especially since it is stereotypically men who commit crimes like the Moors Murders .
By observing the poems: ‘’A narrow fellow in the grass’’ and ‘’A bird came down the walk’’ we can see that Dickinson has a very complex relationship with nature. Dickinson’s perception of nature is by no means ‘ordinary’. In general the word ‘nature’ springs to mind images of tranquillity and beauty whereas Dickinson tends to focus on how nature is associated with death and danger. Dickinson never declares the obvious in the poem ‘’A narrow fellow in the grass’’ since the word snake in never mentioned although, there is not much description to go on, only that the creature is "spotted" and that it is large enough to make (to the human eye) noticeable changes in the grass when it "rides" by. Since, the snake looks like "a Whip lash / Unbraiding in the Sun," it doesn’t necessarily have to be a giant snake.
For a piece that can be read in one short sitting, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ evokes an impressive level of fear. To bring about such strong emotion in so little space, Gilman simultaneously makes use of several plot devices woven carefully into the short story. One such element is dramatic irony, which occurs when the full significance of characters’ thoughts or actions is understood by the audience but not the characters themselves. Dramatic irony is almost omnipresent the genre of horror due to its power to add suspense and a sense of dread to a plot, but Gilman cleverly uses it to serve other purposes as well. The dramatic irony in ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ not only adds to the story’s horror, it also creates the illusion that readers have power over the plot and that ideas presented in the story come from the themselves rather than from the author.
Munoz, Anthony Mrs. Bargaineer English III 6 March 2011 Nikki Giovanni established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. She has made an impact on writing today through her unrelenting passion and devotion to literature and poetry. One of her most famous books that she has written would be "Bicycles: Nikki Giovanni Collection". Through this book, she writes about love and life; her use of emotion, truth, erotic imagery, and literary devices all come together into one single masterpiece. Lets dig deeper into those little things that make her one of the most profound poets in American Literature.
The repetition of the ‘a’ draws attention to how the nouns escalate from minor to major emotions. Duffy makes clear these are all internalised, ‘in my mind’, but the effect of the negative emotions immediately transforms how she sees herself as ‘the hairs on my head [turned] to filthy snakes’. Not only does she see herself as a monster now but the pejorative adjective ‘filthy’ shows how her self-esteem is beginning to be eroded. The snake metaphor is extended as Duffy uses sibilance to recreate the vicious sounds of the snake-like thoughts that ‘hissed and spat on my scalp.’ The thoughts are as poisonous as snakes but the poison is directed inwards, towards her ‘scalp’. This word can also mean to gain a victory but the only person here being damaged is herself.
Here are a couple other reasons to consider. The content of many of Plath's poems plays on rich and specific raw emotions. She did this through crafting specific images and symbols with carefully chosen words and figures of speech. Generally choosing everyday experiences and items to write about, she did indeed write about some of the pain in her life including the "The Jailer" about her husband Ted Hughes who had cheated on her, and "Daddy" about her father who abused her. These topic choices come from truthful circumstances, but readers generally really sympathize with Plath because of her suicide and what led her to it.
Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market: The female body and its different meanings. Goblin Market is Christina Rossetti's most famous work, well-loved by the critics and subject of different interpetrations.The poem, written in 1859 is the ideal field for contrasting perspectives: the woman body can be seen as a conduit to God and at the same time like herald of female sexuality in Gothic fiction. Stressed by Rossetti's good use of language, both perceptions are widely accepted even if one should consider them completely divergent. As Humphries says in his “The uncertainty of Goblin Market”: 'Rossetti's writing repeatedly pivots upon contradictions and obscurity'[1]. The composition is about two sisters 'one who falls and the other who saves'[2].
She wrote unique poetry in all aspects; subject, language, structure and form; despite her seemingly sheltered and mundane life. It is that aspect which possibly makes her poetry even more unique in itself and makes the distinct unreplicatable 'Dickinson style' even more remarkable. One thing that is unique about Emily Dickinson's poetry is how daring and modern it was for her time, and how it extended the conventions of poetry in that era. Dickinson poems are first person dominated, as can be seen in 764(754) through lines such as 'For I have but the power to kill,' and 'My life had stood - a Loaded Gun', these personal pronouns 'I' and 'my' allowing a personal connection between the persona, which we presume to be Dickinson, and the reader. This feature of her poetry highlights Dickinson as a Confessional poet, which, although we regard confessional as a well known aspect of poetry now through poets like Plath and Lowell, would have been very unique and practically unseen in the 1800s.
‘Elm’ finished with the disturbing line “That kill, that kill, that kill”We can see through her callous honesty and the unsettling atmosphere that she is tormented when she says “Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf”. Here, she is using an image of a grave and this sense of mortality is extremely personal, many poets wouldn't write about such agitated thoughts. Her startling honesty is seen when she says “I am terrified by this dark thing”. Plath is afraid, she is desperate and she is reaching out to her readers, begging for help. Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting.