Emily Dickenson: Central Themes

Emily Dickinson is the best-known female poet of the English language, and also one of the foremost authors in American literature. She was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts where she lived a very peculiar life. She hardly ever left her house and she confined herself to her room to live in privacy. While in her room, Dickinson created over seventeen hundred pieces of poetry. Of these, only ten were published during her lifetime. The rest …showed first 75 words of 1171 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1171 total…felt with her whole heart, thought with intensity, and imagined with ardor, and she shared a part of herself in her poetry. Her intensity is reflected in the dramatic quality of both her poetry and her life. She lived a painful life and chose death to be the main theme in a majority of her poetry. Through an analysis of her works one can better understand the true agony it was to be Emily Dickinson.