More than seventeen hundred poems have been written by Emily Dickinson (Meltzer, 2006). Emily Dickinson is a poet known to be one of the greatest writers in the English language (Meltzer, 2006). She was a poet that showed a great variety of perspectives on many different topics. She should be included in the class material because she is a great poet that is shown through her life experiences, analyzing her three main themes of death, nature, and love which leads to examining her contributions to the world.
In order to understand some of the poems of Emily Dickinson it is an important to know her life. She was born on December 10, 1830 at Amherst, Massachusetts (Johnson, 2013). Her family was an economically …show more content…
This poem shows a complicated relationship between the mind and the external world (Ritzala, 2011). The brain has the ability to learn and it has the access to gain as much information as possible in the entire world. The brain may not grow physically but it is “constantly growing in the sense that we learn more and more each day” (Ritzala, 2011). An important quote in the poem was “The Brain is just the weight of God” (Baym, 104) from this comparison it seems that the “brain can gain information from God and utilize it in the same way that human sound to form syllables” (Ritzala, 2011). I believe this comparison and explanation truly show how amazing the work of Dickinson is. This poem shows how Dickinson interrupts and uses nature in her poems to add …show more content…
“I cannot live with you” poem 706 is one of the greatest love poems that Emily Dickinson had written (Bloom, 1985). Even though Emily Dickinson is considered a Realism poet she shows some modernism in this poem. This poem is an “argument of the classical Shakespeare sonnets” which is an element of modernism literature (Bloom, 1985). This poem seems to be arguing against love therefore raising questions about the idea of love (Bloom, 1985). This poem also shows that Emily Dickinson was having a love affair and she was questioning the idea of love (Bloom, 1985). Some critics believe that this poem was a way of rejecting someone she had feeling for and trying to move on with her life (Bloom, 1985). The final world in the poem was “Despair” (Baym, 106). Since there was nothing to they can do about their love, the only thing left was the feeling of despair (Bloom, 1985). This type of literature shows the depth and importance of how great of a writer Emily Dickinson