Emily Dickinson and Her Poetry Essays -- Dickinson Poet Poetry Essays

Emily Dickinson was ahead of her time in the way she wrote her poems. The poems she wrote had much much intelligence and background that the common person could comprehend and understand. People of all ages and critics loved her writings and their meanings, but disliked her original, bold style. Many critics restyled her meter to their liking and are often so popular are vagabond in books alongside Dickinsons original poetry (Tate 1). She mainly wrote on nature. She also wrote about domestic activity, industry and warfare, economy and law. Her scenes sometime develop natural or social scenes but are more seeming to create psychological landscapes, generalized scenes, or allegorical scenes. She uses real places and actions to set out a certain idea or emotion in her poem. She blends legend and symbolism, which is the reason for the complication in her poems because allegory and symbolism contradict from each one other (Diehl 18, 19). Dickinson did not name most of her poems. She named twenty-four of her poems, of which twenty-one of the poems were direct to friends. She set off other peoples poetry titles with acknowledgement marks, but only capitalized the first word in her titles. Many critics confide she did not title most of her poetry because she was not planning on publishing her work. As Socrates said, the knowledge of things is not devised from names no gentleman would like to put himself or the education of his mind in the precedent of names(Watts 130). Dickinson said that the speaker in all...