Comparing Emily Dickinson And Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe were known as America’s most genius, symbolic and professional gothic writers during the 19th century. Poe had a pretty depressing life where he encountered death of multiple loved ones. Dickinson was a middle-class woman who preferred privacy and was quiet and independent. Their poems leave readers in confusion but with a thirst to find the hidden message within each line. The most phenomenal thing about their poem is that when the message is received, the reader gains some extraordinary knowledge about life. Both poets wrote a great deal about death and pain and reflect on their experiences within their poem by expressing themselves throughout their poems 341 and Annabel Lee. Despite these similarities, both poets interpreted death and pain differently where Dickinson interpreted death as something that can end the pain which couldn't be escaped but only coped with and Whitman believed that death is a battle to be fought and is what leads pain. Dickinson and Poe had a quiet depressing life and they both reflects on their experiences in their poems. Poetry was the only way to express feelings. It’s like they were given a gift of
Poe indicated that pain is caused by death when he wrote Annabel Lee where he discussed how the absence of speaker’s love caused him internal pain where the memories of Lee kept rushing to him intensifying the pain. Dickinson believed that pain is something that would always haunt you no matter what. So the only thing that releases you from pain is the end of everything and every horrific memory. As you die all the trauma will die with you.From both of their different thinkings about pain and death, you can conclude that death only transfers the pain to someone else while relieving another from