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Emily Dickinson

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17 July 2009

Analyzing Dickinson 's Poetry

To analyze Dickinson 's poetry , this will involve the analysis of three of her works , `Safe in their Alabaster Chambers , I Heard a Fly Buzz-when I died , and The Brain-is wider than the Sky

1 . The poems were written in the first person . Since most of her poems tackled the depressing situation of death , the speaker of the poem can in fact be a dead person . However , it seemed that ED may also be assuming

an all-observing , all-seeing speaker like God . In the Brain-is wider than the sky , it even seemed that God was in fact the speaker since the weight of God ' was compared to the brain . As for the poem 's audiences , it may be that the literary works were directed towards the `living ' - people who are not safe within alabaster chambers and who have not heard the buzzing fly as they lay on their deathbeds

2 . In the The Brain - is wider than the sky , there is really no definite setting , it can be likened to any moment of rationalization . In I heard a fly buzz when I died , the setting was in a deathbed while it was perhaps in the cemetery for the poem Safe in the alabaster chambers . The situation was related to dying . It may be that the speaker is already dead , or nearing his death . theless , the action in the poems remains the same - surrendering to the...

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