O’ Neill’s play Desire Under the Elms is a story about a young woman married to an old man who cements her relationship with her stepson. The play ends with a tragic note—the lady kills her new born in order to prove her love and loyalty to her stepsonlover. The overtone of incest in the play caused much controversy.
A Bird Came Down The Walk “A Bird Came Down the Walk” is a short nature poem by Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886). It is about the poet’s encounter with a worm-eating bird. The poem was first published in the second collection of Dickinson’s poems in 1891. This is a…
The poem I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain by Emily Dickinson describes a psychological state. It depicts a condition of extreme anguish and mental disorder, a situation of psychological torment where the speaker feels all the oppression and powerlessness of a helpless victim and ultimately collapses.
