Thursday, 14 October 2010

Compare and contrast Emily Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society€”" and Robert Frost's "Desert Places."

Emily
Dickinsons The Soul selects her own Society is a poem about ones choice to remain isolated.
The speaker personifies the human soul as one who shuts the door / To her Divine majority once
it has found a single focus.

In contrast, the speaker in Robert Frosts
Desert Places is haunted by the loneliness he feels deep within: his isolation is...

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