... , hearing is the last sense to be lost. Dickinson emphasizes this last Sense' in her use of many auditory adjectives. These are the sounds that shape the person's discernment of reality. The reader can never see or picture these people at the funeral in the narrator's Brain. Instead, this poem is best understood by the sounds she describes it by. In the first stanza, Dickinson utilizes the metaphor of a ... drum emphasizes the next line in which the repetition of "beating "beating- mocks the thrashing of sticks against a drum. This repetition creates the monotonous tone and dark atmospher...

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• Grade Level: High School

... given a feeling of life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the form of the poem to convey a message to the reader occurs on line four as she writes, "And Immortality." Eunice Glenn believes that the word "Immortality" is given a line by itself to show its importance (qtd. in Davis 107). Perhaps the most notable way in which Dickinson uses form is when she ends ... , not a house. Figurative language is also used as Dickinson creates two instances of perfect rhyme. The first time perfect rhyme is used is in lines 2 and 4 with the rhyming of the words "me" and "immortality."...

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... (12)" equals old age. In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem "The Horses" Heads (23)," " Leading toward Eternity (24)." Dickinson dresses the scene in such that a mental picture sight, feeling and sound of once life. The imagery begins when Dickinson invites us into the carriage. Death slowly takes us on a sight seeing trip where ... we see the stages of life. The first site was the "School, where Children stove ... both the thought and emotion of its readers and can effectively change one's viewpoint of eternity....

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... ; and "Setting Sun- (12) old age- (21). In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem, the "Horses Heads- (23), leading "towards Eternity- (24). Dickinson fathomed the incomprehensible progression of life by unraveling its complexity with figurative images. Emily Dickinson dresses the scene such that mental pictures of sight, feeling, and sound come to life ... - playing, laughing, and singing. This scene conveys deep emotions and moods through verbal pictures. The imagery in the final scene, "We passed the Setting Sun,"" p...

• Word Count: 685
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... and "Setting Sun- (12) old age- (21). In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem, the "Horses Heads- (23), leading "towards Eternity- (24). Dickinson fathomed the incomprehensible progression of life by unraveling its complexity with figurative symbols. Emily Dickinson dresses the scene such that mental pictures of sight, feeling, and sound come to life ... talks about elsewhere-(21). On this invited journey, one vividly sees the "Children- playing, laughing, and singing. This scene conveys deep emotions and moods throu...

• Word Count: 790
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• Grade Level: High School