Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets, and a death-obsessed writer. Her poems exemplified the truth and hidden humor about death. This famous poem 'If I should Die' contrasts death with the life of the survivors. This has thematic affinity with Robert Frost's 'Home Burial.' Like Frost's poem, this is concerned with the changeless routine of the survivor's world.
I had something that I called mine was written in 1859 by Emily Dickinson. Here she deals with her frequent occurring death theme, but in a different playful manner. The use of short lines and legal jargons like a bailiff, arms, vindicate, council, help deliver the carefree touch.
The poem I like to see it lap the Miles was written in 1862 and was published for the first time in 1891. It was an age of rapid growth of technology. The Amherst and Belcher town Railway had already been established. The poem is a record of the poet's reaction of the coming of the train. Emily Dickinson invests the mechanical product of technology with aesthetic effects.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers is written in 1891 by Emily Dickinson. The technique of concretizing abstract feelings is quite frequent in Emily Dickinson's poetry. But to a poet endowed with tragic sense, the theme of hope is quite unusual. This is one of the few poems where Emily strikes a note of hope. The poet calls a hope a thing with feathers (bird) that sits on the soul and keeps on singing a song of optimism.
A Bird came down the Walk was first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems. The present poem, like most others, illustrates the distinctive quality of Emily Dickinson, that is, even the most commonplace themes is invested with freshness and originality in the hands of Emily Dickinson. The poem describes a bird that comes across the poet in a garden. But the poet's minute observation, the precision of her words and the freshness of metaphors make the poem uniquely her own.
I taste a liquor never brewed is a short lyrical poem written by Emily Dickinson which was first published in the Springfield Daily Republican on 4 May 1861. The publisher changed the title of the poem as 'The May-Wine', but Dickinson herself never titled the poem so it is commonly referred to by its first line.
Success is counted sweetest is a lyric poem of Emily Dickinson’s which was one of only seven published poems during her lifetime. It was written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864 in the Brooklyn Daily Union. The uses of the images of a victorious army and one dying warrior cater the meaning that only one who has suffered defeat can understand the true value of success.
The poem Love is written in the form of a ballad. A ballad, in general, is a short narrative poem, dealing with simple homely themes of perennial interest. It is written in an artless, simple and direct manner. The themes of the older ballads were mainly connected with war, love, family ties, and feuds of a similar nature. The poem Love also describes a situation in a dramatic manner. The poem contains a story within a story.
The poem Love is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful love-poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. The poem's composition was originally involved with that of the 'Tale of the Dark Ladie', to which it was to have been an introduction. Genevieve, the beloved in this poem, is a creature of the poet's imagination, though some critics identify her with the daughter of the poet's school-nurse.
Dejection: An Ode was written by ST Coleridge on the 4th of April, 1802 when Dorothy and William were on a visit to Keswick. It is a personal poem in which the poet expresses the distress of his soul. The poet bewails that he has lost the creative energy which Nature had given him at the time of birth. There was a time when Coleridge had great creative power and wrote his three most powerful poems -The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.