The Yellow wall paper

The narrator has a nervous depression. She seems like everything is uncomfortable to her. John is her husband and also her doctor. He doesn't agree with her thoughts and her illness. The narrator has an extraordinary imaginations. Her husband wants to cure her even stop her to do any active things, especially writing. She doesn't like the yellow wallpaper in her room, and argues with John to repaper it again.

Life in the Iron-Mills

In the beginning of the story, the narrator stares out the windows and always see the cloudy day that besiege the gloomy and dark iron mills. Deborah,a hutch-back, is in love with her cousin Hugh. She even brings him dinner to iron-mill in a cold and rainy day, even though she hasn't finished her dinner. One day, a group of men visit the iron mill notice Hugh's statue which is made from korl. The men tried to help him out, but it needs money. Deborah hears the conversation, so she steals money from one of the men, Mitchell. Hugh decides to give it back to Mitchell, but he contemplates the money because this money can changes his life!People catch him and he receives fifteen-year sentence. Deborah also sends to the jail, but she receives three-year sentence. Hugh is desperate and leads him to suicide. A Quaker woman comes to the jail and plans Hugh's burial place. She assures Deborah that he will be buried on a hillside.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

The film begins with a man who standing on a railroad bridge, and he is sentenced to death. It is a surprise of Farquhar's death. His desire for escape makes him think he gets released accidentally. His fantasy is similar to the real world. In the video, it straight to the fantasy world that makes me think he really gets escaped. He unbinds the ropes of his necks and legs, and sees around him the nature and the soldiers who are ready to fire at him. In his fantasy, he is able to avoid all the attacks and makes it back to his family. But, he's still cannot escape the reality. In the film, it doesn't say why he gets hanged. When Farquhar touches his wife, the real execution forces him back to the reality.

1. I learned that Emily Dickinson was an interesting person. She kept aloof from most people, but I was impressed by her love of nature. During this research project, I read a lot of books about her, as well as some of her work. Although these were easy to read, it was difficult for me to gather all the information that I needed. Slowly, I started to discover interesting facts about her life. This is when I discovered her love of nature. The reason she wanted to segregate from people was because she wanted to be closer to nature. I dug up more research about her love of nature. I learned about her background and the people that surrounded her. The area that Emily Dickinson lived in was right in the middle of nature. Hutchinson, Newton, and Emerson were the three people who most influenced her in her study of nature.

2. My research topic was related to some of the works about nature that we have discussed in class. I compared the works of Emerson and Dickinson discovered some contrasting opinions between them. I furthered my studies by reading Nature by Emerson, and by studying Transcendentalism. Both Emerson and Dickinson were considered Transcendentalists. Dickinson kept secluded from society and bonded with nature. However, from her poems, I discovered some evidence that leads me to believe that she began to have some fears of nature. The most important difference in opinion between Emerson and Dickinson was that Emerson believed that human and nature are actually one.

Emily’s earliest friend Ben Newton was the one who guided her to explore the intellectual and spiritual world of Transcendentalism.

In The Letters of Emily, she wrote, “Mr. Newton was with my Father two years, before going to Worcester, in pursuing his studies, and was much in our family. I was then but a child, yet, I was old enough to admire the strength and grace, of an intellect far surpassing my own, and it taught me many lessons, for which I thank it humbly, now that it is gone. Mr. Newton became to me a gentle, yet grave Preceptor, teaching me what to read, what authors to admire, what was most grand or beautiful in nature, and that sublime lesson, a faith in things unseen, and in a life again, nobler and much more blessed. Of all these things he spoke-he taught me of them all, earnestly, tenderly; and when he went from us, it was as an elder brother, loved indeed very much, and mourned and remembered…..”

Ben Newton played an important role in the shaping of her poetic thought. Newton not only exposed Dickinson’s intellectual thoughts but also inspired her to be a devotee of nature. In her memory of Newton, Emily acknowledged her great debt to him. The most significance influence of Newton upon Dickinson lay in putting her in touch with the advanced thinking of that time, and in particular the writing of Emerson. Emerson also was a major influence upon Dickinson with his poems and essays. Dickinson was familiar with Emerson’s Transcendentalism. The appeal that Transcendentalism holds for Dickinson lies in the mystical harmonies of man and nature, the organic and ongoing processes of human life as well as nature.

Emily Dickinson's father, Edward Dickinson is stress on the education. He even sets up the library for his children, so they can self-educated. Moreover, he also builds a garden for Emily. The garden gives Emily more privacy and also keeps her in touch with nature. She cultivates her interest in nature in her secret place in her garden. Dickinson's inspiration of poems from her observation of creatures like bees and the view of landscape.

Household chore also inspire her to write poetry. She sometimes write at the back of the shopping list or recipes.

Emily Dickinson prefers to stay home and have an isolated life. New England means a lot to her, and the small living space that she has makes her more interest in searching for the meaning of nature.

Emily Dickinson has a special way of living. She associated with nature, and living animals. The landscape of New England, the changing of weather, flowers and birds are all the topics that she portrays in her nature poems. She has a great passion toward nature. She loves to embrace nature because it can mollify her soul and obtain peace. The love that she gives human and the society is all move to nature.

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"Nature" is what we see—

The Hill—the Afternoon—

Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee—

Nay—Nature is Heaven—

Nature is what we hear—

The Bobolink—the Sea—

Thunder—the Cricket—

Nay—Nature is Harmony—

Nature is what we know—

Yet have no art to say—

So impotent Our Wisdom is

To her Simplicity.

From this poem, we can see she gives positive way to nature.

I found that Emily Dickinosn especially like spring from four of the seasons.

I'll continue to do the research that why she loves spring so much.

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