How Did Emily Dickinson's Life Influence Her Poetry

Every author is unique in terms of their writing. Some authors are more famous than others because of their literary works. Emily Dickinson is a world renown poet. The reason she is so famous is because of the universal themes, styles, and techniques she incorporated into her poems. Emily Dickinson became extremely famous due to the themes in her writings. Dickinson has many themes in her writing. Some of the themes occur due to influences based on her life. The two most common themes she wrote about was the theme of death and time (Roy 8). During her life, many of her loved ones passed away, such as Charles Wadsworth, Helen Hunt Jackson, and her mother. This influenced her poetry because many of her poems contained the death of close ones
Most people believe in some sort of afterlife. Although this poem contains no mention of immortality, her other poems do reveal her belief in immortality (Roy 8). A poem that displays this is “Because I could not stop for Death”. Dickinson represents death as a being and not just a sudden action like in different poems. Death brings the person in the poem on a journey to show her the previous stages in her life and eventually her grave (Bloom
This is displayed when Dickinson says “Since then- -‘tis been centuries […] I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity”. The theme of immortality is evident in this poem because if the speaker is speaking about her death in the past tense, then there must be an afterlife (Frank 3). Speaking in the past tense in “Because I could not stop for death” does not show Dickinson’s belief in an afterlife, but also her attitude towards death. In this poem, she describes death as a carriage driver who is very kind towards her. This is shown in first few lines of the poem “Because I could not stop for Death- - He kindly stopped for me” (Frank 6). Death and immortality are two different people in this poem. Immortality is described as a passenger to death in the carriage (Bloom