What Makes Emily Dickinson Unique
Literature is powerful for education. When reading a story or a poem by an author we find a way to connect to it. It allows us to get a better understanding of the work that the poet is putting out for us to read. Through literature, we wouldn’t be able to know about some of the best authors there is to date.
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson is considered one of the best poets from her time. Every poet has something that makes them unique and different from one another and what made Emily unique was the way she wrote her poems in incomplete sentences as well as how she explained herself through writing. As Allen Tate states, “Dickinson’s poems do not encompass a wide range of experience; instead …show more content…
The poet Emily Dickinson showed human nature through all of her poems. She shows us her way of thinking, and I believe it had to do with her past. Emily Dickinson didn’t have the easiest or most perfect life. She went through so many hardships with family, acquaintances, and herself. She would show us her feelings as well as show her thoughts on any occasion that went on in her life through her poems. One of the poems that stuck out to me was “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”. That poem shows human nature because Emily Dickinson expresses that the feeling of the death of a loved one is indescribable as well as her …show more content…
It allows us to feel the emotion they feel by letting us become them while reading the poem. Emily gave us a peak of what she was thinking by expressing herself in her poetry. She showed her way of thinking of life with the symbolism she was showing in her poems. As Boxall states, “This relation between death writing and blind seeing emerges repeatedly in Dickinson’s verse - so much so that it becomes the motor and the medium of her thinking” (199). Through Dickinson poem, “Because I could not stop for death” she shows how she was comfortable with the topic and it was something she never feared. She never feared to talk about death since she knew it was going to
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson is considered one of the best poets from her time. Every poet has something that makes them unique and different from one another and what made Emily unique was the way she wrote her poems in incomplete sentences as well as how she explained herself through writing. As Allen Tate states, “Dickinson’s poems do not encompass a wide range of experience; instead …show more content…
The poet Emily Dickinson showed human nature through all of her poems. She shows us her way of thinking, and I believe it had to do with her past. Emily Dickinson didn’t have the easiest or most perfect life. She went through so many hardships with family, acquaintances, and herself. She would show us her feelings as well as show her thoughts on any occasion that went on in her life through her poems. One of the poems that stuck out to me was “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”. That poem shows human nature because Emily Dickinson expresses that the feeling of the death of a loved one is indescribable as well as her …show more content…
It allows us to feel the emotion they feel by letting us become them while reading the poem. Emily gave us a peak of what she was thinking by expressing herself in her poetry. She showed her way of thinking of life with the symbolism she was showing in her poems. As Boxall states, “This relation between death writing and blind seeing emerges repeatedly in Dickinson’s verse - so much so that it becomes the motor and the medium of her thinking” (199). Through Dickinson poem, “Because I could not stop for death” she shows how she was comfortable with the topic and it was something she never feared. She never feared to talk about death since she knew it was going to