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- 161: Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye
- Dickinson's Poem #465: Buzzing Bye Imagine the different emotions that you would experience when lying on your death bed, as your life flashes before your eyes. There may be feelings of guilt, remorse, regret, contentment ... following this conclusion a period for closure while waiting for her death to arrive. In lines 2-4: The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm- Dickinson is using the metaphor of time between storms. The storm of life represents the trails of the speakers physical known surroundings and the storm of death represents the unknown trials of dying. The speaker ... a constant agitating reminder of her life, that did not cease until the decision was made to close the windows of her mind. Although death is unexplainable, most people are willing to describe their version. Dickinsons version of death sparked interest within me by having to decipher the images and metaphors that she used, and to look deeper to find what she really meant.
- 162: Themes Of Change
- ... your own life and not become so dependent on others. Throughout the course of life a person will encounter many changes, whether good or bad. In A&P , The Secret Lion , and A Rose for Emily , the main characters in the stories are Sammy, the boys, and Miss Emily who face changes during their lives. All of these characters are in need of change. Because of their need for change, their lives will become much better. They are filled with wonder and awe about ... around them. No matter what type of person, everyone will encounter changes. It is part of the natural process. A person is encouraged to make these changes for the good. Sammy, the boys, and Miss Emily all encounter changes in their lives that fulfill their need to become something different. In A&P by John Updike a young cashier named Sammy is very confused about the concept of life. In ...
- 163: The Chosen 3
- ... obsolete with one unfortunate accident, and make them realize they could use each other to get through some hard times. "Silence is all we dread. There's ransom in a voice--But Silence is infinity."-Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson's quote can be related to the novel in several ways. "Silence is all we dread," can relate to Danny's lifestyle and how he cannot stand the silence in which his father ...
- 164: The Chosen
- ... obsolete with one unfortunate accident, and make them realize they could use each other to get through some hard times. "Silence is all we dread. There's ransom in a voice--But Silence is infinity."-Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson's quote can be related to the novel in several ways. "Silence is all we dread," can relate to Danny's lifestyle and how he cannot stand the silence in which his father ...
- 165: The Chosen By Chaim Potok
- ... obsolete with one unfortunate accident, and make them realize they could use each other to get through some hard times. "Silence is all we dread. There's ransom in a voice--But Silence is infinity."-Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson's quote can be related to the novel in several ways. "Silence is all we dread," can relate to Danny's lifestyle and how he cannot stand the silence in which his father ...
- 166: Elizabeth Bishop
- ... besides being an award winning poet, was a prolific letter writer. Her friend and publisher, Robert Giroux, has assembled and edited over 500 of the letters Bishop wrote to her friends from around the world. Emily Dickonson's closest friends knew she wrote poetry, because she often included poems or lines from poems in her many letters. What they had no way of appreciating, however, was the magnitude of her solitary ... her sister Lavinia found in a drawer over 1,700 poems --- the result of a lifetime's concentrated work. And since the publication of a small selection of those poems four years after her death, Dickinson's reputation has risen; today her place among the very best poets to have written in English is unchallenged. Dickinson in her early 30's made some tentative attempts to get published, but her work was far ahead of its time and she did not meet with success. Only seven poems were published in ...
- 167: Helpless Before The Iron in Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing"
- ... been a good mother. One finds that the narrator is defenseless as a mother because of her youth, her single status, and her poverty level. Firstly, the narrator is very young at the time of Emily's birth. The mother has not enough time to grow up for herself and thus does not understand the needs of a newborn child. Although the narrator does her best in bringing up Emily, she lacks good technique in the early part of her parenthood when parent child interaction mean the most. When Olsen writes "Though her cries battered me to trembling and my breasts ached with swolleness, I ... her own. Closely related is the narrator's single status in a time of male dominance and no charitable family organizations. The mother is acquitted from any wrong doing because her husband abandons her and Emily early in the story because he " could no longer endure" (p. 169). This act causes the mother to have to raise Emily on her own and with no experience. This proves to be one ...
- 168: Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love and Acceptance
- ... never done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best. Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Use the mother tells us that " ...
- 169: Love And Acceptance
- ... never done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best. Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Use the mother tells us that " ...
- 170: Love And Acceptance
- ... never done before, "hugged Maggie to me," then took the quilts from Dee and gave them to Maggie. In I Stand Here Ironing the mother tells us she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is, for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The mother's neighbor even tells her she should "smile at Emily more when you look at her." Again towards the end of the story Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best. Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Use the mother tells us that " ...
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