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Literary_Analysis Research Essay Spring 2019

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Throughout her poetry, Emily Dickinson displays a fascination with nature and death through her symbolism, theme, and form.

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McChesney, Sandra. “A View from the Window: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson, Chelsea House, 2002. History Research Center, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=&itemid=&articleId=1519. Accessed 24 Apr. 2019.

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a. Give your proposed solution:
b. Throughout her poetry, Emily Dickinson displays a fascination with nature and death through her symbolism, theme, and form.

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a. Thirdly, Dickinson used her own unique form for her poems that included changing grammar and vocabulary to fit her needs and using dashes as punctuation.
b. Claim: Emily's form included many dashes and unique vocabulary and grammar.
c. Evidence (Quote): all her poems.
d. In almost all of her poems Dickinson often uses dashes as punctuation. The dashes, while often debated, are an important part of her poetry's form. Dickinson purposefully used dashes to enhance her poetry and its meanings, without them the poems are very different.
e. Some lines of Dickinson's poetry has an unusual sound or wording. She would often rearrange words and their meaning to better fit the needs of whichever poem she was writing.

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a. Transitional Topic Sentence: Secondly, the themes of nature and death are abundant in many of her poems.
b. Claim: Emily used the themes of nature and death to show her fascination with nature and death.
c. Evidence (Quote): "Because I could not stop for death", "I felt a funeral in my brain", "Wild Nights", "The Spider"
d. Explanation: The themes of death are present in "Because I could Not stop for death" and "I felt a funeral in my brain. In Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for death" she personifies Death as a person who is riding in a carriage with her and describes their journey presumably to the afterlife. In Dickinson's poem "I felt a funeral in my brain" she speaks of funeral proceedings which center around the death of a person.
e. Nature is the theme in "The Spider" and "Wild Nights"In Dickinson's "Wild Nights" she includes the theme of nature to show the lovers are as wild as the sea can be. The poem "The Spider" is about a spider weaving its web until it is eventually destroyed, much like everything in nature.

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a. Firstly, Emily Dickinson frequently uses nature symbols in her poetry.
b. Emily's use of natural elements, such as a spider and the sea show her fascination with nature.
c. Evidence (Quote): "The Spider", "Wild Nights"
d. Dickinson's Poem "Wild Nights" is an upbeat poem about lovers throwing caution to the wind and having a wild night together. In it she mentions the sea and sefaring instruments such as a compass and chart. Dickinson uses the sea as a symbol of unpredictibility and likens it to the night the two lovers had.
e. Dickinson's poem "The Spider" is a tale of of a spider creating its masterpiece of a web only to have it torn down in time by the houskeeper. It is believed that Dickinson used the spider as a symbol for herself rather than the standard meanings of spiders. In her life Dickinson created her poetry but rarly published any of it and began to realize that in time her poems would also be forgotten.

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Poems
“Because I Could Not Stop For Death”,
“Wild Nights-Wild Nights!”,
“I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”,
“I Like to See It Lap the Miles”

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Emily Dickinson Poems
Formalist Theory

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In the 1800s, during a time where female writers were a rarity, Emily Dickinson emerged. Being the daughter of a lawyer she was given a formal education and access to many forms of literature. After a time she began to write her own poems and chose to spend the later half of her life in seclusion which allowed her to explore the depths of her psyche. Only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime while the majority were published after her death by her family. Throughout her poetry, Emily Dickinson displays a fascination with nature and death through her symbolism, theme, and form.