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Emily Dickinson Figurative Language

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Emily Dickinson is remembered today as a stand out female poet due to her bold style that was a strong contrast beside her female counterparts. Not only was her lifestyle considered somewhat controversial, but her poetry was viewed that way, as well. Instead of sticking solely to soft poetry, Dickinson was a fan of the richer topics: life, death, and nature. Emily Dickinson’s poem “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes,” is a spectacular example of her contemplation of a murkier subject. Through the use of a conspicuous title and fluid figurative language, Emily Dickinson creates tones throughout the stanzas, as well as a collective tone and theme. Dickinson takes advantage of a few literary devices in order to convey specific messages
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Bedford/St. Martin’s 2019 1127. Dickinson, Emily. “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes” Literature: The Human Experience. Abcarian, Richard, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen. 13th ed.

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Another literary device that Dickinson uses in this poem is satire. Satire, in literature, is the making fun of a human character flaw or some type of human weakness. She uses satire to point out the flaws in society such as their need to talk and go on about the smallest and most unimportant details even if they know that the person which they are talking to does not really care. She states that it must be boring to be one of the “somebody’s”, with all the noise and attention that they receive directing what they do. She seems to be making fun of the” somebody’s” for trying to fit into a society that only cares about their own individual images.

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The evidence expresses, the narrators madness throught the punctuation; the narrator used repetition, dashes, and commas to epshaise and represent the element for madness. (This shows the narrotrs hared for the eye and that he has disliked it from the start) The narrator used repetition to help espasise what he was trying to say and used dashes and commas to create pauses and a pace to make the setting more intense. Dickinson used puncuataution to help crate a element of madness because he wanted the audience to understand that the narrator was losing her mind slowly however, she was also losing her sanity along with it. The text stated, “And then a Plnak in Reason, broke/And I dropped down, and down-/And I hit a World, at every plunge, (Dickinson Lines 17-19).

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  On the other hand, Emily Dickinson’s poem “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” explored the feelings of despair and numbness that follow intense emotional pain. While these two works may seem vastly different, they share a common

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Emily Dickinson explicits the poem about her inner thought in a song-like tone. She creates the poem as if the readers are the psychologist and she is the patient. Dickinson uses parallelism, "It was not," for three times. She does not know what "It" is.

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This shows that Dickinson found comfort in being able to reveal her true self in her

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In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking” she describes ways she can improve someone’s life. Dickinson feels that if she improves someone’s life, her life will not go in vain. She ultimately describes that her purpose in life is to care for others. Dickinson’s use of sound devices, a reoccurring theme, and figurative language allows her emotions to surface in the poem and draws attention to certain aspects of her poetry. During Emily Dickinson’s adult years, she spent most her time at home (“Emily Dickinson Biography”).

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Poets use many different literary devices when writing poems. Learning about the different literary devices before reading poems, gives the reader a better understanding of the poem. Emily Dickinson used the literary device imagery to keep readers interested when she wrote the poem “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”. Imagery is the experience felt through our senses. Emily Dickinson made sure that the reader could picture what was happening in the poem, in their mind as well as hear the sounds.

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This use of figurative language is one of many methods in which Dickinson described the glory of

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What do you think all of these poems have in common? Identity. The metaphors of being somebody in I'm Nobody, Who Are You? By Emily Dickinson, the caged bird in "Sympathy" By Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the rock and the island in "I Am a Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel represent how the speaker's identity is expressed in many ways.

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" Here, Dickinson suggests that even when we cannot find the words to express our feelings or when we feel as though all is lost, hope continues to sing its song. This speaks to the resiliency of the human spirit, even in the face of adversity. Finally, Dickinson offers a message of comfort and reassurance, writing, " And sore must be the storm /

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Despite the title “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”, Emily Dickinson was nowhere near out of creativity as she had written 366 poems that year. In the poem she uses poetic devices including paradoxical elements, metaphors, and diction to convey the emotions to occur for the speaker in the event of the mind’s creativity dying. Even though there was no obvious struggle in her writing, she still writes passionately about this feeling of death within her mind. Throughout the Poem, Dickinson uses phrases with paradoxes to emphasize her message.

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Most of her lyric poetry touched on rather abstract concepts and ideas as a single speaker expresses inner thoughts and feelings. One of the elements of Dickinson’s writing that makes her stand out is her unique poetic structure. Her language is “elliptically compressed, disjunctive, at times ungrammatical; its reference is unclear; its metaphors are so densely compacted that literal components of meaning fade” (Miller 1). This style, as well as the use of dashes and capitalization throughout her writing, can make it difficult to understand the meaning behind her poems. For example, when Dickinson writes “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm-”, she capitalizes common nouns in order to add emphasis, and she uses dashes for dramatic effect and emotion.

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When describing the “Heavenly Hurt” (5) from the light, Dickinson states one can find “internal difference / Where the Meanings are---” (6-7). Pain, in this sense, is an individual experience--yet, the ‘difference’ is unknown. Then, a brusque shift to the next stanza takes place, where she says “None may teach it--Any--” (9), contradicting herself from the previous stanza. This change in tone, from contemplative to severe, highlights the poet’s aberration of faith. While pain may be felt universally, the unique definition cannot be explained verbally, as the feeling varies amongst people.

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What examples will you use from the poem? The speaker refers hope as "the thing with feathers"(line 1), Dickinson hints the birds in the poem as the symbolism of hope. He expresses that hope is "perch[ed] in the soul"(line 2) which "sings the tune without the words/ and never stops

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