Emily Mortimer

Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help…

Emily Bronte was a genius of her time when it came to writing. She came to be known by her controversial novel Wuthering Heights and the quiet nature she had. Anyone just looking at her or spending time with her wouldn’t even realize she was such a talented writer. Wuthering Heights was a jewel and parallel to her life in many ways. By looking at Wuthering Heights, one can see that Emily Bronte included themes of revenge, love, loneliness, and death because she was trying to get away from a dull…

With moments of joy comes times of sorrow, along with these polarized emotions comes celebration of new life which makes losing life easier to understand. Though this understanding comes simply, the need to explore thoughts of death still lingers. For many poets this fixation of where they will go to at a natural time undetermined by themselves fueled the writing of many poems indulging in the thoughts revolving around their soul and its journey. While in the other hand a group of poets took a…

Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has express her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again…

we’ve all surely asked ourselves, always present in the back of one’s mind. It resembles a seemingly never-ending search for purpose in life to surmount to the inevitable. As Russell M. Nelson once said, “We were born to die and we die to live”. Emily Dickinson, a 19th century American writer from Amherst, Massachusetts, explored the intrinsic meanings of life and death through several of her poems and literature. Dickinson resided in a pious household; consequently, she continually…

Emily Dickinson had many different writing, most of which revolved around the same common themes. She didn’t want her works published, and kept most of it private until she died. Many wonder why she wanted no attention during her lifetime, when her poems said differently. What were the reasons she wrote using the same common themes? Maybe because of the way she was raised, or maybe because she was writing what she felt rather than saying it to the world, maybe both. Emily Dickinson sure did…

The assigned Emily Dickinson poems seem to have a theme connecting death with God. I believe Dickinson sees the world through the lens of loss. Grief seems to consume her poetry. It is as if Dickinson ruminates on the subject of death analyzing it from many angles. Her poetry also hints at her attempts to reconcile her thoughts and feelings about death and her relationship with God. I think in the grief-filled aftermath of loss, Dickinson’s contemplates the role of God in life and death as…

Imagine yourself surrounded amongst an opulent, and ever so peaceful setting of nature; feeling one with God and his creation. Using this way of finding your peaceful consolation, especially amongst nature, was exactly how Emily Dickinson described her faith. As being part of the shared beliefs, I found her expressions of the faith often understandable, and possibly even similar to my own. Although she holds a pessimistic view towards practiced religions, Dickinson continues to express her…

people are entitled to their own opinion regarding the world they live in and the life they allow themselves to live. Although, there are some authors that are more capable of expressing their feelings and experiences through their work than others. Emily Dickinson produced almost 1800 poems in her lifetime to which every one of them were based on the experiences she had in her own life. Although, a single poem did not describe a single experience, the basis of her poems showed the lifestyle…

Emily Dickinson: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass A Modernist poem written during the age of Romanticism, Emily Dickinson’s A Narrow Fellow in the Grass displays nature in a rather unique and peculiar fashion. The poem itself also delves into several other topics, such as fear, awe, religion, and sex. Throughout the course of the play, a young boy-the narrator of Dickinson’s poem- meticulously describes the sighting of a slithering snake as an encounter with a “narrow fellow in the grass”. The…