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Analyzing Emily Dickinson Poems
1,668 wordsAnalyzing Emily Dickinson's Poems During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson was unknown to the general audience as a poet, and only after her death the works she has created became popular. Nowadays Emily Dickinson is recognized as one of the greatest American poets, and she is especially famous as a lyric poet. Many of Emily's biographers call her eccentric and psychologically unbalanced; she did not have that many friends as a child and preferred to spend her time alone. As a recluse Emily Dickinso...
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Emily Dickinson Fly Buzz
5,517 wordsGerhard Friedrich This poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter. First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, and second, what is the meaning of the double use of " see" in the last line? An analysis of the context helps to clear up these apparent obscurities, and a close parallel found in another Dickinson poem reinforces such interpretation. In an atmosphere of outward quiet and inner calm, the dying person collectedly proceed...
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