Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a very profound woman poet. I found her poems to have a bit of morbidity and darkness to them even when referring to the heavens. Since she did not partake in Christianity, it makes a bit more sense. I was very intrigued to learn that she was able to be published yet had no spouse to support her. This being in the mid to late 1800sis very surprising. She also surprised me by only publishing 11 out of her 1,775 poems. Unlike many women writers who want all their work out there, she prefers to stay a bit in the shadows which really shows interesting aspects of her personality. Focusing on the morbidity of the poems, Dickinson definitely has a dark side. Her "Poem 280" is a perfect example of it. The way she plays with words and places a sad event in her mind is not only powerful but effective. In a website based on Emily Dickinson, it explains Dickinson in life and death.One article explains how she died. Dickinson believed that a loss of the passion to live was the way many died. She lost her nephew and several other family and friends around the same time she became deathly ill. "Dickinson became what her sister termed “delicate.” (Web). This is seen with many women during this time. Loss of children during infancy, poverty, or a number of aliments lead many to lose their passion to live. http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/death
Emily Dickinson is by far one of my favorite poets and you're so right on the morbidity and darkness which is exactly why I like her! The fact that she prefers to stay in the shadows is the most intriguing thing about her I believe because she doesn't like to brag and boast about her work for the world to see which shows that she truly is passionate about her work and writing poems for self pleasure and reward. which is one of the most inspiring things out of someone who is so successful and good at what she does. She's a very smart woman and is a very strong poet. I love her poems and how they have no titles either which makes your mind think of what they mean to you while reading...instead of guessing what it's about before you read it. Her death, and the timing of it that you were talking about almost proves one hundred percent that her true feelings and passion about what she wrote was true and real, and she was living proof of that.
ReplyDeleteDickinson's sister calls her delicate which I can understand from lose of loved ones. I really wouldn't call her delicate though. her poetry makes the reader feel what she is feeling at the time. It's seems like she had been struggling with a lot of things throughout her life. In Poem 280 especially she sounds like she is very lost and confused with in herself. For a person to be that tormented but still write about it.I certainly wouldn't call that delicate.
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