Reading Poems

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Reading Poems

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Reading Poems

Continuous immersion in different literary works within the genre of poetry has enabled me to develop critical thinking skills in relation to the assessment of a particular literary work . This may be seen as a result of the different works ' use of various literary techniques in presenting a particular point . Consider for

example , Emily Dickinson 's Because I Could Not Stop for Death ' as well as W .H . Auden 's Musee des Beaux Arts

In the poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death , Emily Dickinson uses textual imagery in to combine the discussion of death in line with women 's place within society in relation to their position in a romantic relationship with men . As one initially reads the poem , one may arrive at the conclusion that the poem merely outlines a person 's journey through life as he begins his conscious experience of life during his childhood until the end of his days when he grows old . Within the poem , the speaker states , We passed the school where children played /We passed the fields of grazing grain / We passed the setting sun / Since then `tis centuries but each / Feels shorter than the day /Were toward eternity (Dickinson , 2007 ,

.279 . If one is to relate the poem to Emily Dickinson 's...