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Essay / Life Connections to Dickinson's Themes
Many people in today's world misunderstand and judge others. It represents people throughout time. In the mid to late 1800s, people judged Emily Dickinson and never really knew who she was. His life was a mystery to most people because all they knew was his lonely self. She wrote during the late Romantic period, but is also considered a writer of the Realist era because of her focus on the negative aspects of life. Writing over 1,770 poems, Dickinson published only seven during her lifetime (Dommermuth-Costa 105). People only realized his talent after his death and his sister, Lavinia, had his poems published (104). Unwittingly, Dickinson influenced American Romanticism through her writings and scholarship (104). She wrote unconventionally, but her poems were unique because they lacked titles and used different punctuation (104). People can learn more about Emily Dickinson without just reading her biography. His poetry reveals many aspects of his life such as loneliness, pain, religion, love and death. Emily Dickinson's life greatly influenced her poetry. Dickinson's poetry possesses the idea of solitude as does her life. “There is a solitude of space” says that a person can find anonymity in the privacy of their home (Dommermuth-Costa 56). Additionally, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" contains a description of a soul who freely chooses to close itself off from the world to seek solitude in order to aid in its creativity and self-discovery, which Dickinson decided to to do with his life (“The Soul Select”). In the first stanza of "The Soul Chooses Its Own Society", the speaker describes the soul closing a door, the image of an individual who deliberately shuts himself in ("The So...... middle paper..... .(“Because I could”) Dickinson spent most of her time in bed from November 1885 because she suffered from Bright's disease, a very serious liver disease (Dommermuth). -Costa 101). She fell into a coma on May 13, 1886 and never regained consciousness (101). Dickinson's fascination with death reflects the theme of death in her poetry. 'Emily Dickinson inspired the themes of her poetry Her experience of loneliness and her religious ideals added to the truth behind some of them. Additionally, her pain felt by death and her fascination with death described them. an individual's true feelings towards death. Her love life greatly influenced her poetry because many people did not know that she had relationships with people. poetry helps a person discover the many experiences of their life.