The language of poetry is a symbolic imitation that expresses life and describes the world. Studying Emily Dickinson's representative poems is the benchmark of understanding one's self and the world in general. The study analyzes poetic themes and igurative language. It undertakes on the pervading themes and/or visions in the representative poems in their intellectual and emotive dimension; and (2) igurative language in terms of igures of sense and sounds. The study uses the textual analysis of Dickinson's ive representative poems as the basis of the thematic content as suggested by Knickerbockers (2005). These poems: (a)

2020

The poem has the role of the media to deliver the author’s opinion, messages, and feeling towards certain phenomena to the readers by using literary language. The idea of those poems needs to be interpreted by the readers and it is dealing with meaning. Problems occur when there is the literary language used by the author since not all the reader can understand the implicit meaning inside the poems which certainly used figurative language, especially metaphor. Thus, the study entitled Metaphorical Expressions in Emily Dickinson’s Poems aimed to find the metaphor inside three poems by Emily Dickinson entitled I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, Because I could Not Stop for Death and I Heard a Fly Buzz – when I Died. This study also aimed to identify the implicit meaning behind those metaphors. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson, they are structural metaphor, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphor. To answer the second res...

Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, 2019

Emily Dickinson’s ‘Because I could not Stop for Death’ is one of the most celebrated and researched poems in American literature. This research paper not only aims at analyzing the poem stylistically by exploring the figurative language and poetic devices used by the poet to portray the themes of death and immortality; but it is also an attempt to find out the contextual meaning of each figure of speech used in the poem. Descriptive qualitative research method is used in the current study to analyze the poem. The findings revealed that while writing her poems Emily broke the norm of conventional style of composing poetry by adopting a unique form. One such example is the use of half rhyme instead of full rhyme. Moreover, figures of speech such as Personification, metaphor, metonymy, antithesis, symbolism etc. are used which will help the reader understand the poem.

ABSTRACT Halimah. 2015. An Analysis of Figurative Language in Emily Dickinson’s Poem in “The Single Hound” Suryakancana University, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, English Department. This research focuses on finding out what kind of figurative languages that are used in Emily Dickinson’s poems in “The Single Hound” poem and analyzing contextual meaning. Some are metaphor, smile, antithesis, hyperbole, and paradox. This study was designed to follow the principles of qualitative descriptive method. Data were collected form 11 Emily Dickinson’s poems; after reading and understanding the poems, the writer selected figurative language found in Emily Dickinson’s poem. In analyzing the data the writer analyze every figurative language that found in the poem, and the last drawing conclusion based on the result of data analysis. In finding and discussion, the writer found three personifications, one metonymy, one repetition, and one symbolism, in “Adventure most unto itself in “The Soul that has a Guest” there are five personifications in this poem, six Symbolisms, one metaphor, and one hyperbola, in “Except the smaller size, no Lives are round” there are one metaphor and one symbolism, in “Fame is a Fickle Food” there are one metaphor, and nine symbolisms, two metonymies in “The Right to Perish Might be to Thought”, there are one irony, three symbolisms, two metonymies, and one hyperbole, in “Peril as a Possession” there are one metaphor one personification, and one simile, in “When Etna Bask and Purrs” there is one symbolism, in “Reserve cannot Befall hat Fine Prosperity” there is one symbolism, one metonymy, in “To be Alive is Power” there is one personification, in “Witchcraft has not a Pedigree” there are hyperbole and two metonymies in “Exhilaration is the Breeze” there are one metaphor, and one personification. Finally, it is hoped that this study has some benefits to the readers especially to the students who are interested in analyzing the same literary work of English Department is Suryakancana University Key words: poem, figurative language, literature

Emily Dickinson and Philosophy (ed. Elisabeth Camp), 2021

The goal of this paper is to reconcile two competing camps of thinking regarding Dickinson’s poetry. According to the first camp, the form and content of her poems cannot be pulled apart. What she says is tightly bound up with how she says it. According to the second camp, we can paraphrase her poems; we can say what they say in other words. To resolve the tension between these views, I defend the following two claims. First, we tend to ask too much of paraphrases. We wrongly demand they reproduce everything contained in the original poem. Second, poets and critics are engaged in different kinds of activities. These activities are governed by different norms. In particular, form and content must be tied together for a poet such as Dickinson but not for a critic intent on a paraphrase.

Stylistic Approach to Emily Dickinson's poem, 2020

As a meeting ground between linguistics and literature stylistics has provided, since its inception, a systematic and more rigorous approach to literary texts. The basic assumption is that, adopting the scientific linguistic tools can be a viable theoretical framework that could better, account for the structural idiosyncrasies and deviations distinguishing most of literary works. The present paper intends to investigate Emily Dickinson famous poem "Because I Could not Stop for Death" by using linguistic techniques whereby the graphological, phonological lexical, semantic and discursive features of this poem is explored and explicated. The most important query is that what are the most notable stylistic devices being used in the poem under investigation. Thus, the main objective is to document the distinctive style of Dickenson. The findings of this investigative endeavor affirm and illustrate the remarkable structural peculiarity typifying Dickinson's style. Hence, the most important recommendation is that stylistic approach should be allotted more space among English courses.

Emily Dickinson, the mysterious and solitary Amherst nun, was one of the most famous American poets both in theme and in technique. She exerted a great deal of influence on modern American poetry. Her works appealed to a great many readers all over the world. The themes of her poems have been analyzed a lot. I intend to explore the characteristics of her poetic language from a stylistic perspective. Rhyme Generally speaking, poetry has rhyme to create musical effect. We have masculine rhymes (one-syllable rhymes), feminine rhymes (two-syllable rhymes), polysyllabic rhymes and a further kind of rhyme called half rhyme. Rhymes are arranged in a pattern, we call this pattern a rhyme scheme, such as abab, aabb, abba etc. Before Emily Dickinson, poets stick to this convention. They rack their brains to find an appropriate word in order to keep the same end rhyme. Sometimes the meaning of one word gives way to its sound. As for readers, they may find that this poem sounds like a piece of music, yet they may also feel monotonous and tedious while reading poems in such a uniform pattern. Emily Dickinson didn't confine herself to this rule or convention. She was a valiant experimentalist. She broke the convention and established a free style. So her poems are shocking as well as attractive. We can get many surprises in her poems. Sometimes, readers may find her poems a little disturbing, but they never fail to leave us deep impressions. Her innermost emotions are successfully conveyed to us. Although Emily Dickinson didn't obey the rule firmly, she has her own writing preference. She likes to rhyme at the end of even number lines, and many of which are half rhymes and masculine ones. However, not every stanza contains rhymes. Let's see an example.

International Journal of English Linguistics

This paper focuses on the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson’s and Sylvia Plath’s poetry. It differentiates between the phonological stylistic devices as alliteration, consonance and semantic stylistic devices as simile and personification. The study is carried out on five randomly selected poems from each poetess using the mixed modal research with the tool of tabulation to quantify the findings. Qualitative approach is used for analysis. The analysis provides a clear picture of the use of stylistic devices in Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath’s poetry.

2023

Emily Dickinson was a prominent American poet ． She wrote altogether 1,775 poems，whose themes could be divided into about despair, agony, nature，love, and religion. Separation, death and loss are major themes in her poetry. Her despair poems have already been interpreted from a variety of Perspectives. In the context of her psychological deterioration in life, it is great significance realistically to reread Dickinson's despair poetry from a new angle whose aim is to explore her mind and thought. Though her poetry was not written during the modern era (cited after Eliot's Alfred Purfrok), however it is considered a modernist poetry due to its main themes and her technique: fragmentation, obscurity, uncertainty,and paradox. This paper aims at a better understanding of her poetry of despair; a look into her grim sad poems in an attempt to find a philosophy behind it. Her main search is for heavenly ecstasy which has a close relation to human despair: in order to attain God's mercy, one should go through life's adversity. This is her own experience that makes "despair" a "human condition", and her ultimate conclusion. For her, the eventual problem is not to master despair, but as to transform her experience into great fine poetry.

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