The Styles And Themes Of E. Poe And E. Dickinson's Poetry

In this paper, it will compare and contrast Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry and Emily Dickinson’s poetry. It will analyze their styles, their take death, embodiment of death, and America. It will also give a short back ground of the poets and their lives.

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) “is recognized as one of the greatest American poets, a poet who continues to exert an enormous influence on the way writers think about the possibilities of poetic craft and vocation. Little known in her own lifetime, she was first publicized in almost mythic terms as a reclusive, eccentric, death-obsessed spinster who wrote in fits and starts as the spirt moved her-the image of the woman poet at her oddest” (88). Emily Dickinson’s writing perspective on death is “Her poems range over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. She looked at death from the point of view of both the living and the dying. She went so far as to imagine her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknown. Finally, she personified death and breathed so much complexity and power of character into him that he became one of American literature’s protean figures” (Paul J. Ferlazzo). Dickinson used mannikin of figurative voice communication, paradox, personification, and irony to springiness the reader a new look on life. She wrote about what she knew and about what intrigued her. Emily Dickinson’s themes are universal proposition, but her particular vantage stage tend to be very personal; she rebuilt her world interior the products of her poetic imagination. Therefore, some cognition of her life history and her shape of mind is requisite for illuminating much of her work. Dickinson lived in nearly aggregate isolation from the outside world. However, she remained active with voluminous parallelism, and was an avid reader. Her family served as her fellow. Dickinson’s poetry frequently reflects her loneliness, but her poetry also is marked by the possibility of happiness. “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. In this poem, Dickinson’s speaker is human action from on the far side the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to lifetime. In the poem, the speaker is just too busy for Death instead, death takes the time to try and do what she cannot and stops for her. Humanity tends to see death as personified and sees death as scary, or discouraging, but instead he’s courteous and a delicate guide, leading her to eternity. The speaker feels no worry once death picks her up in his carriage, she simply sees it as associate act of kindness, as she was too busy to seek out time for him.

Works Cited

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