Are you familiar with Emily Dickinson and her poems?

Emily Dickinson is a talented American poet of the 19th century. In her lifetime she wrote over 400 poems, the majority of which were published after her death.  Emily wrote poems of love, life,  nature, time and eternity.

She is famous for her poems, like “There is Another Sky”, “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, “The Brain Is Wider Than The Sky”, “I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed”, “We Never Know How High We Are”, “We Lose Because We Win”, “Just Lost, When I Was Saved!”, “It’s Like The Light”, “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” and many others.

Emily Dickinson poems carry a number of peculiarities about them. Some of the peculiarities are their short lines, brief titles and individual use of capitalization, lineation and punctuation. Emily’s poems are full of satire and puns. She made an extensive use of rhymes and free verse and that’s the reason that her poems are melodic.

It’s difficult to determine a particular genre into which Emily’s poems fall. But two things are for sure. The first one is that Emily avoided romantic style. And the second one is that she avoided politics and made no reference to political events in her poems although lived through the Civil War.

I am fond of Emily Dickinson poems. Particularly I was impressed by the poem “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close.” In this poem the author describes the tragedy of human life and tells of the painful losses. The paradox that was created in the final two lines of the poem is really amazing.

Read poems by Emily Dickinson; they have much to teach.

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