The poems "I Measure Every Grief I Meet" by Emily Dickinson and "The Day Is Done" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both focus on the theme of sorrow, but do so in markedly different manners. While Dickinson approaches the topic in a very nonchalant...

Originally examined by Immanuel Kant, he describes the sublime as an aesthetic experience in which one feels a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. The sublime is known to be found in “formless objects" or...

In contemporary America, Emily Dickinson is considered among the most meritorious, preeminent, and superlative poets, particularly with regards to American sentimentalism and Romanticism as depicted by her rather compelling and fecund body of work...

The tradition of elaborate mourning was already a burgeoning custom in the 19th century but it was Queen Victoria's public mourning of her beloved Prince Albert's death that popularized the customary funereal rituals practiced throughout the...