Emily Dickinson Figurative Language

The writer that I chose is Emily Dickinson. The first poem that I chose from her was "I'm "Wife"--I've finished that--". I am comparing this poem to, "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!. I will be discussing the similarity in writing between the two, each who have a different theme. I have considered the line breaks throughout the poem, stanza breaks, rhyming, repetition, line lengths, sound systems, settings, structures, and the use of figurative language.

The themes of these poems are different in writing but seem to have similar meanings. In the first poem, "I'm "Wife"--I've finished that--", she seems to be finding her self as a woman. She was always alone, with thoughts that she kept to her self. Now she is with someone, "I'm "Wife'--I've finished that--". She says "this being comfort", she feels comfort with this new person, maybe seeing this person like a husband. Realizing it was pain
She almost relives her experience through her writing, getting that same feeling again as she write. She always seems to write with emotion. This makes her sound systems similar as well. Using exclamation points in both poems, she feels what she writes, and writes what she feels. She does not use stanzas in either of these poems. Both poems are short and also have similar line lengths. In "I'm "wife"--I've finished that--", she uses three to six words per line. In "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!". She uses two to five words per line.

The setting of both poems seems to be taken at the same place but at a different time. Her poems are journals from her life and most of her life took place at her home. They both were structured around a man in her life that filled her with many new emotions, and other things for that matter. No one really new about her affair till after her death. This means she must have been meeting her secret affair somewhere else. It must be in another house with a bed for all of these "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" to