In this poem, Emily Dickinson is expressing her way of recovering after someone or something she loved is no longer around. ... In the last stanza of the poem, Emily is addressing her heart, "asking" it to let her know when it is successful in getting over the warmth, or physical closeness, of the loved one. ... In this poem, it seems Emily feels that the heart is stronger than the mind, in the sense that the heart will grasp fond memories and emotions, making it harder for the mind to forget. ... Speaking to her heart if as it were another person, Emily tells her heart to perform a human acti...

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• Grade Level: High School

In today's world politics impact everything whether people notice it or not. This big role that politics plays in life gives many a narrow-minded view. The people within the parties of politics have their views, some being more extreme then others. Most have an unwillingness to see further than thei...

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Everyone has their own idea of enlightenment. I, for example, might feel enlightened after eating a really good double extra chocolate brownie with chocolate chips and cocoa powder (my mouth is watering). After all, I have just eaten the god of all brownies. You however, might feel enlightened af...

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Emily Dickinson articulated the uprightness between the two with this passage: The Heart is the Capital of the Mind " The Mind is a single State " The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent " She implies that a friendship with both characteristics, thought and passion, will ensure that a friend does not lose her Self in the intense affection for another women. ...

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• Grade Level: High School