How Does Emily Dickinson's Use Of Connotation

The setting of a poem can be set by connotation. There is positive and negative connotation. Emily Dickinson's poem seems to have a happier connotation. John Donne's poem has somewhat of a gloomy connotation. An example of Emily's connotation is she decides to use "kindly" in her second line. She could have said something like harshly.
Donne uses positive connotation such as virtuous instead of bad. This choice to use virtuous gives the poem a connotation of morality. This is a positive connotation. Sigh-tempests and tear-flood are examples of figurative language. They convey a feeling of sorrow.
Dickinson uses positive connotation when she uses the word civility. Civility is of positive connotation. It is used to convey a point of peace.