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WhitePP ENG 1102 Mrs. Owens May 12, 2012
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De’Jon White
ENG 1102
Mrs. Owens
May 10, 2012
Emily Dickinson nearly wrote 1,800 poems throughout her life. Because she had no interest in publishing her poems, none of her poems were discovered and published until after her death on May 15, 1886.
THERE WERE FEWER THAN TWENTY POEMS THAT EMILY DICKINSON TITLED. ONLY THE LETTERS AND POEMS THAT SHE SENT TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY WERE TITLED. THE REST OF HER POEMS THAT BECAME PUBLISHED AFTER HER DEATH WERE NUMBERED. DICKINSON IDENTIFIED HER POEMS BY THE NUMBERS IN WHICH THEY WERE CREATED OR BY THE FIRST LINES OF HER POEMS.
Emily Dickinson, unlike other poets in her era, wrote with a peculiar style. She used dashes to indicate pauses in her poems, she capitalized random letters and her punctuation was odd; all of which were widely criticized because her poems violated the conventional laws of poetry writing.
She was known for using the common meter in her poems. The common meter is a line of eight syllables followed by a line of six syllables, repeating in quatrains of an 8/6/8/6 pattern. A popular Christian song that uses the common meter is “Amazing Grace.”
Emily Dickinson followed the rhythm of the hymn in her poems. A hymn is a religious song or poem, typically of praise to God or a god. Two famous composers, Barber and Copland, were able to use her poems in their music because of her use of the hymn.
EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS ARE MAINLY ABOUT THE MAJOR EXPERIENCES OF LIFE. SHE HAD A PASSION FOR CREATING POEMS
ABOUT NATURE AND TWO OF HER MOST POPULAR ARE: “THERE’S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT” AND “A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS”
THE THEME OF LOVE IN HER POEMS IS WHERE EMILY WAS MOST EMOTIONAL AND EARNEST. HER POEMS “I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU” AND “WILD NIGHTS” ARE THE MOST POPULAR IN REGARDS TO LOVE.
DEATH AND IMMORALITY WAS THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE FOR DICKINSON. HER MOST POPULAR POEMS IN RELATION TO DEATH ARE: “BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH” AND “I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED”
ONCE EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS WERE PUBLISHED BY MABEL LOOMIS TOOD AND T. W. HIGGINSON, THEY WERE DISTRIBUTED IN THREE DIFFERENT SERIES.
EMILY DICKINSON WAS WIDELY KNOWN AFTER HER DEATH FOR HER unUSUAL STYLE OF POETRY WRITING. SHE CREATED HER POETRY
WITH A STYLE THAT SHE MADE HER OWN AND SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF HER POEMS, DICKINSON BECAME THE MOST
PROLIFIC FEMALE POET OF ALL TIME.
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