The Heart And Soul Of People 's Innermost Thoughts And Questions

Throughout the ages, American authors have changed the way people of their era and future eras think about society and their own livelihoods. Both Dickinson and Thoreau have questioned society and even changed what society deemed the norm through their writings. Two of these writers, Emily Dickinson and David Thoreau, isolated themselves from society so they could express themselves more freely. Their thoughts of society differ throughout their writing, their reclusiveness to society and seriousness to their writing. One can find some similarities in both writer’s works. These similarities show that one should be steadfast in their beliefs even if they oppose society. We should learn to live without constraint

When people think of Emily Dickinson, they think of a white dressed, ghostly woman hidden in the corridors of home, writing poem after poem. They do not think of the actual person Emily was. Emily Dickinson grew up in a rich, social, scholarly environment. She could have chosen many paths that would have led her to a completely different life, but because of circumstances, the social, high energy girl with a sense of humor became isolated by her own choice. Though Emily Dickinson’s depression is romanticized, sickness, social life, and death led her to seclusion and deep poems.

Additionally, Emily Dickinson’s use of pronouns in her poems can sometimes be vague or unclear. Some poems contain pronouns that do not relate to the antecedent. Her unconventional grammar and the way she structures some of her sentences is a reason many readers consider her as such a great writer. The contrasting effect of her grammar is that sometimes her poems are not understandable. The way she writes is difficult for people to read and understand her poems’ main messages and themes. Even to this day literature fanatics are not entirely sure of the message she tries to get across in some of her works (Emily Dickinson 18).

Dickinson grew up around death which affected her greatly. Her seclusion may have contributed to the meanings of her poetry. The isolation from society helped Emily Dickinson’s style evolve into one that can be recognized. This isolation “offered the opportunity for her to explore her mind” (Daniels 2). The death of her mother and father devastated her greatly and influenced her poetry even more.

Emily Dickinson was an exceptional writer through the mid-late 1800’s. She never published any of her writings and it wasn’t until after her death that they were even discovered. The complexity of understanding her poems is made prevalent because of the fact that she, the author, cannot expound on what her writing meant. This causes others to have to speculate and decide for themselves the meaning of any of her poems. There are several ways that people can interpret Emily Dickinson’s poems; readers often give their opinion on which of her poems present human understanding as something boundless and unlimited or something small and limited, and people always speculate Dickinson’s view of the individual self.

Emily Dickinson chose not to conform to the madness of society and shut out many of the people that she felt wanted to change her. She wrote a poem called “The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” in this poem she writes about how the soul shuts certain people out and confides in only one person. Emily Dickinson writes “Then- close the Valves of her attention- Like Stone-,”

Emily Dickinson, born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is regarded as one of America’s best poets. After a poor experience at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, where she was regarded as a “no hope,” her writing career took off in full swing. Although her family was more conservative, regular churchgoers, and socially prominent town figures, Dickinson preferred a socially reserved lifestyle that renounced the traditional values of her day (Baym, 1189-93). The iconoclastic spirit pervasive in Emily Dickinson's poetry reflects her conflict with the traditions of New England society.

The Belle of Amherst, The Woman in White, or The Most Paradoxical of Poets…who can say which pseudonym is most becoming of the late great Emily Dickinson. By virtue of the multitudinous biographical literary works, moreover the wondrous intimacy of Dickinson’s poetry, one could surmise that as readers we comprehend her entirely: yet the most prevalent experience borne from reading Emily’s work, especially if her poems are read successively, is that we come away feeling as though we know nothing at all. Like no author before her and very few after her, Emily Dickinson divulges her hearts hidden secrets while recording what is inexorably one of the most conscientious explorations of the human consciousness ever attempted. Dickinson is known posthumously for her unusual use of form and syntax, but it was her pervasive themes of immortality, death, and madness in her poems that would canonize her as an indelible American character.

Sometimes her views are very romantic, but other times they are intimidating and a little eerie. Many people agree that, “[Dickinson’s] poems’ greatness comes from the elaborate use of literary techniques to give shape to death, and the ambiguity of meaning that allows different interpretations of these journeys”

Religion, the integrity of faith, and the nature of God are all prominent elements of renowned poet Emily Dickinson’s pieces. By using a small variety of formats, namely short and assertive, with long and flowy on the contrary, Dickinson is able to convey the complexity of the topic at hand, or the gravity of the issue. Dickinson also uses varying diction in order to differentiate how she views potentially controversial subjects; sometimes using ornate vocabulary and other times making blunt statements to do so. Using these tools, Dickinson productively conveys the message that there is a much needed blend between the idea of religion and the facts that science provides.

Emily Dickinson, a unique poet of over 1,700 poems is considered to be one of the most gifted poets in American Literature (Great American). In her poems qualities of nature, love, immortality and death are expressed through her words (Great American). Dickinson was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her Puritan spirit, wrote very little until the early sixties as a result of the chaos of the Civil War. In 1862, she decided to send out her poems to Thomas Wentworth Higginson in response to his call to do so in article titled “Letter to Young Contributor” that he published in the Atlantic Monthly (American Authors). Higginson soon became Dickinson’s mentor and was able to validate her as an authentic poet (American Authors). Her writing never truly became famous until after her death (Great American). Looking in depth to her poetry one can lead to paraphrasing, notice use of literary devices and utilization of themes and morals.

Emily Dickinson is perhaps one of the most intriguing American poets studied. The remote look in her eyes mirror her life, which she mostly spent secluded in her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. While leading an outwardly reclusive life, she unleashes the faculties of her mind in her powerful poetry. She addresses compelling themes such as death, depression, human despair, individual capability, and the art of poetry. Her feelings on these subjects emerge in her poems, but her exact thoughts are difficult to uncover since her poetry is so highly enigmatic. Likewise, the subject matter of Christianity in her poetry remains one of the most inconsistent of Dickinson’s recurring themes. Emily Dickinson posses an uncanny ability to wrestle down the perfect diction, thus creating worlds of hope, despair, faith, and endless questioning.Through her use of imagery, Dickinson displays her linguistic prowess and the intricacies of language.

Emily Dickinson is considered one of the greatest poets today in America, yet in the 19th century her work was considered inconsequential, unconventional, and unacknowledged amongst many of her peers. Dickinson’s work is unique beyond measure, because it changed the traditional rules of rhythm. Emily Dickinson’s experience of lost loved ones throughout her childhood and on into her adulthood made a significant impact on her life. It impacted her by making her disgruntled towards religion, and obsessing on death. Miss. Dickinson’s writing did closely reflect her life experiences, and emotions. Yet, when examining Dickinson’s poetry closely one can identify it as though she shaped personalities, and occasions

But I wonder whether Miss Dickinson led a happy life as a recluse. Of course, her emotions can only be inferred from her poems, which reveal quite a range of feelings but do not answer my question. And a larger question also remains unanswered: Did Emily Dickinson, as a recluse, owe something to society, and if so, do her poems offer sufficient payment for that debt? Also, did Dickinson’s society owe her something, and if so, was the publication of her poems posthumously sufficient payment for that debt? And what about some other recluse who does not have the capacity to contribute as Dickinson did? What do he and his society owe each other?

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense