Dickinson - Jade Youngblood

I have never been a fan of poetry. I don't understand it well. Instead of saying,
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The nerves sit ceremonies, like Tombs –” (1053)
why can't she say, “A broken heart is not fun, and it takes time to heal,”? Anyway, since I have no idea what Dickinson was trying to say in her poems, I would like to give a short biography of her life.
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She went to boarding school, but returned after a year because she was too homesick to stay. This pattern continued throughout her life – she never left home and rarely had visitors. She did, however, correspond with many poets, writers, and scholars in her lifetime. A few of her influences included: William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. As Dickinson aged, her seclusion became worse. She considered her dog Carlo her closest friend. (She named him after the dog in Jane Eyre.) Carlo died after sixteen years together. She even got to the point where she would only talk to visitors through a closed door. In her seclusion, she wrote most of her works during the mid 1860s. She also started to only wear white. Dickinson was surrounded by death – her mother, father, brother, and favorite nephew all died within her life. After a long battle of kidney disease, Dickinson died at the age of fifty-five on May 15, 1886.
“This is the hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons. Recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –” (1053)

Hedda Gabler Quiz

Hey, Everyone, I left town without a copy of the quiz to load into Blackboard. I'll get it up when I get back to LR. I'll extend the due date a day or so. CKB

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

           In Mary Shelley Frankenstein, I kept
thinking if the creature is good or bad. In my opinion I will think that the
creature is good. The creature smiled benevolently at Victor through his bed
curtains (Shelley 35). He suffers from his abandonment. He learns the hard way
that fire burns and that he is ugly. He is tormented and targeted because of
his displeasing appearance. However his senility showed when he became filled
with nature, and cried at some of depressing stories from the De lacy’s family.
His tender and caring heart showed when he looked over the family, gathered
fire wood for them, and cleared snow from the path for them during the winter
month. “My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the
motives and feelings of these lovely creatures” (Shelley 77). He had educated
himself through this time, and he was trying to get the courage to show himself
to the family that he loved. All of the creature’s action throughout the time watching
over De lacy’s shows his pure heart and good intensions.

                   When the creature finally gets the nerves to
confront the De lacy. He was hoping to be accepted by the old man and
eventually by his family. He is violently rejected by the old man’s family. Even
while Felix is beating the creature to save his blind father, the creature does
not strike him back. That will make one think that the creature have some good sense
in him. He never kills anyone out of spite until he discovers the nature of his
creation and how Victor just left him. His anger toward Victor is justified. He
does not mean to kill William. The creature was outraged by the rejection, and
he caused his creator Victor Frankenstein for putting him on earth to endure
such misery. The creature says, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?”
(Shelley 91). The rejection was the final straw for him to hold back his rage.
He decided that he hated his creator so much, and he would revenge his physical
and emotional wound by destroying Victor’s life.

        In Mary Shelley, one can realize that
people can make someone do what they don’t have intention of doing by just the
way they behave around them. This is the creature who thinks, feels, suffers,
desires, and reasons. Unfortunately, he is unfairly judged by his appearance
without giving him a chance to express himself.

           

Emily Dickinson 632

Emily Dickenson 632

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