What Makes Emily Dickinson's Poetry So Interesting
Emily Dickinson is said to be the best American writer ever. She broke down with the conventional style of writing poetry and created her own, containing ‘imperfect’ rhymes, irregular lines and stanzas, no proper punctuation, and capital letters (with no clear reason for the last thing). What makes Dickinson’s poetry so interesting? I would like to focus on her personality, themes of poems and interpret few of her poems to try to answer this question.
Emily Dickinson was brought up in New England by a strict father. She spent her whole life alone, she rarely went out or received guests-it was her own decision, once she said to a well-known critic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Forgive me if I am frightened; I never see strangers and hardly …show more content…
She also presents three stages of our life. The first one is “School” which illustrates our childhood, then “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain” – equivalent for mature life and the last stage is “the Setting Sun” – this is Death. After a Death “We paused before a House that seemed a Swelling of the Ground” which illustrates our grave. In this poem we see that Death is not something bad, it is neutral, we cannot omit Him – everyone dies …show more content…
We can see it in first stanza: “Wild Nights, Wild Nights! Were I with thee, Wild Nights should be our luxury” . The next 2 lines illustrates us that nobody and nothing could tear her love apart from her beloved: “Futile the winds to a heart in port”. Using names of specialist equipment such as “compass” or “chart” can tell us that she does not feel a desire to find new lover because she has found the one that she loves as much as she can. The last stanza she present her “trip to paradise” what can illustrate her meeting with lover, but she is puzzling about staying in a port for that one night. The whole poem is full of emotions – for somebody it is clear, someone else has to read between lines to find it.
And the last poem which I want to analyze is “If I can stop one heart from breaking”. It is a kind of appeal to readers. If we can do anything to help other people we should not remain indifferent, because our life would be devoid of deeper sense or empty like a vain. The poem is very short but it has very deep meaning which should be a motto for
Emily Dickinson was brought up in New England by a strict father. She spent her whole life alone, she rarely went out or received guests-it was her own decision, once she said to a well-known critic, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Forgive me if I am frightened; I never see strangers and hardly …show more content…
She also presents three stages of our life. The first one is “School” which illustrates our childhood, then “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain” – equivalent for mature life and the last stage is “the Setting Sun” – this is Death. After a Death “We paused before a House that seemed a Swelling of the Ground” which illustrates our grave. In this poem we see that Death is not something bad, it is neutral, we cannot omit Him – everyone dies …show more content…
We can see it in first stanza: “Wild Nights, Wild Nights! Were I with thee, Wild Nights should be our luxury” . The next 2 lines illustrates us that nobody and nothing could tear her love apart from her beloved: “Futile the winds to a heart in port”. Using names of specialist equipment such as “compass” or “chart” can tell us that she does not feel a desire to find new lover because she has found the one that she loves as much as she can. The last stanza she present her “trip to paradise” what can illustrate her meeting with lover, but she is puzzling about staying in a port for that one night. The whole poem is full of emotions – for somebody it is clear, someone else has to read between lines to find it.
And the last poem which I want to analyze is “If I can stop one heart from breaking”. It is a kind of appeal to readers. If we can do anything to help other people we should not remain indifferent, because our life would be devoid of deeper sense or empty like a vain. The poem is very short but it has very deep meaning which should be a motto for