A Holistic Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Poems

Reaching for a connection: hand imagery in Emily Dickinsonâ•Žs poems

1 Introduction The image of the hand is important to Emily Dickinson scholarship as both a symbol in her poetry and as a symbol in the criticism that comments on it. While the former will be the primary focus of the present study, the latter was its original inspiration. The hand used as a metonymic representation of the author, as it appears in theoretical studies, is an especially useful lens...

Selected South African High School Students’ Reading Responses on “A Rose for Emily”

Selected South African high school students’ perceptions of stereotypes in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are the center of attention in an attempt to establish or refute the existence of a uniform interpretation in the interpretive community. The textual reader responses were collected by using a questionnaire. The results show that the respondents use stereotypes to understand encounte...

Mystic Poems, Poems of Enlightment

woman-defined identity: analysis of selected poems of adrienne rich

the current thesis is composed in five chapters in the following fashion: chapter two encompasses the applied framework of the project in details; the methodology of carl gustav jung to explain the process of individuation, the major archetypes and their attributes and his techniques to assess the mind’s strata are all explained. moreover, the austrian psychoanalysts, heinz kohut’s models of a...

Emily Dickinson

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...