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

Emily Dickinson was ahead of her time in the route she wrote her poems. The poems she wrote had much more intelligence and background that the common person could get the picture and understand. People of all ages and critics loved her writings and their meanings, but disliked her original, heroic style. Many critics restyled her song to their liking and are often so commonplace are put in books alongside Dickinsons original poetry (Tate 1). She mainly wrote on nature. She also wrote about domestic activity, industry and warfare, sparing and law. Her scenes sometime create natural or social scenes but are more likely to create psychological landscapes, generalized scenes, or representative scenes. She uses real places and actions to convey a certain idea or perception in her poem. She blends allegory and symbolic representation, which is the reason for the complication in her poems because allegory and symbolism contradict each other (Diehl 18, 19). Dickinson did not name most of her poems. She named two dozen of her poems, of which twenty-one of the poems were sent to friends. She set off other peoples poetry titles with quotation marks, but only capitalized the first word in her titles. Many critics believe 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 call no man would like to put himself or the education of his school principal in the power of names(Watts 130). Dickinson said that the speaker in all...