Emily Dickinson was part of Realism-most people like Realism because of the way ideas were expressed. ... To compare to, Emily Dickinson saw life in a completely different way than did Emerson and Thoreau. ... In "Because I could not stop for Death-", the human takes a carriage ride and passes places that are important, like, "the School, where Children strove/ At Recess-in the Ring-/ We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-/ We passed the Setting Sun," (Dickinson, Emily). ... In, "The Soul selects her own Society," Dickinson states, "[the soul]-from an ample na...

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Question 2 Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death" and " I heard a fly buzz when I died", are remarkable masterpieces that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. ... One might undoubtedly agree to eerie, haunting, if not frightening, tone in Dickinson's poem. The tone in Dickinson's poems will put its readers ideas on a unifying track heading towards a boggling atmosphere. . Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of the life's" cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one's life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a ...

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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman's poetry contains the same themes of Emerson but writes in a more concrete way opposed to abstract theories. Dickinson writes mainly of the self-reliant, private individual. Many of Dickinson's poems such as, "I Died for Beauty" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," deal with immortality. ... Through poetry, Dickinson and Whitman speak their own genius. Whitman thinks more democratically while Dickinson values the private individual. ...

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Transcendentalism blossomed during the 1800s with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. ... Dickinson saw life in a completely different way than did Emerson and Thoreau. ... In "The Soul selects her own Society", Dickinson states "[the soul]-from an ample nation-/ Choose One-" (Dickinson 425). ... Dickinson's works define being an American because they talk about the American life, death, society, etc. ... Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson are the major writers during the time of Transcendentalism. ...

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