There Is No Frigate Like a Book

In the poem There is no Frigate like a Book, Emily Dickinson uses quarrel with position connotations to give her poem a more rich and meaningful aspect. Her belief that literature is powerful enough to allow sensations mind to outdistance itself from reality and its immediate surroundings is enforced in the poem throughout her use of language like frigate traverse which connate a sense of excursion or adventure.Dickinson compares books to means of transportation to emphasize this idea of the power of imagination. There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away here the word frigate though its literal meaning is a warship, is used to connote a sense of adventure and exploration while land gives off an matter to idea of exotic and unknown. By selecting these words and comparing them to books Dickinson expresses how powerful literature is over ones mind for it to trick take us to hostile places.The poem follows by expressing the spirituality and joyfulness that can be fo und in literature Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing poetry Dickinson substitutes coursers for horses in this passage to conveys a stronger emphasize of majestic, beautiful and high-class also describing poetry as prancing thus giving it a sense of spiritual, harmony and energetic. The connotations implied by these words and their comparison to poetry in this line help imply the beauty that Dickinson beliefs to find in literatureIn the following line Dickinson reminds us how books are able to call forth anyone no matter from what stratus they come from. This Traverse may the oppress may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll Here traverse which literal termination means to travel through is used to express a sense of danger and mystery, while oppress connotes a sense of a powerlessness, something that holds us fend for or keeps us down and toll suggest a meaning of a limit or burden that one must suffer through.The words in this passage work together to give the idea off the idea of the troubles that goes with traveling by comparing it to books, Dickinson is able to show how literature can do take us away without any of these burdens. In the last lines Dickinson again reinstates her idea how powerful books are, in that they can take us away. How economical is the Chariot That bears the Human soul. By comparing books to a chariot she gives books a more magical, romanticizes tone for chariot connotes a sense of fantasy and fairytale, Dickinson uses frugal to make the how economical book are while implying a aspect of moral goodness to them.Her use of bear in this passage also suggests the importance of the clement soul for bearing something connotes an idea of carrying something with great significance or meaning this works with the final word soul for soul connotes an idea of beauty and ones whole self by using soul instead of mind Dickinson emphasizes how literature is able to take its readers and transport them not just mentally but also emoti onally and spiritually into a completely different world.Dickinson uses connotation powerfully in her poem to give it a more elegant and magical feel to it, by carefully selecting her words Dickinsons focuses more on their connotations than their denotations to give the poem the sense of power and adventure she wants to express close to literature.