Throughout Emily Dickinson's life, she was the victim of several tragic events that profusely influenced her poetry, and lead her to obsess and write about death. ... In an article written by Lilia Melani, an English professor at Brooklyn University, after Dickinson experienced the tragic deaths of those closest to her, "her writing began to focus on death becoming a recurrent theme in her poetry" (Melani). ... "Because I could not stop for death/ He kindly stopped for me," (1-2), suggests that the speaker is meeting death on his terms. ...

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Daddy is a confessional style of poetry, used by the writer as an outlet for pent up feelings of the love/hate relationship she had with her father and the guilt she experienced from it. ... (Modern Critical Views) Due to the fact that she was young when he died, she was never able to confront him with her feelings or to come to terms with the guilt brought on by the love/hate feelings for her father. ...

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Dylan Thomas was born in Wales in 1914 and died in New York City in 1953. In his lifetime, he wrote several collections of poetry. One of the common themes in his work was the continuing process of life and death. This process of life passing into death can be seen in his poem "Do Not Go Gent...

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Our Whimpering World The world is a wasteland harboring hollow men "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality" -T.S. ... Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; To describe the cellar in terms of binary oppositions Eliot wants to emphasize its unnecessary qualities. ...

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