Emily Dickinson and Her Poetry

In this essay, the author

• Opines that emily dickinson is one of the great visionary poets of nineteenth century america. she composed more poems than most modern americans will even read in their lifetimes.
• Argues that the notion of is disputed when it comes to critical literary studies.
• Analyzes how a simple internet search for an emily dickinson biography will yield dozens of web pages with details about the life of this nineteenth century poet.
• Explains that dickinson was an eccentric recluse, so one might interpret the poem based on her isolation, her loneliness. had the reader not known anything about her, the interpretation might be different.
• Analyzes how dickinson's poems contain more than just a window to her mind, and agoraphobia fails to explain many of her more peculiar aspects.
• Opines that readers of dickinson's poems are more concerned with her faults and eccentricities than her method of writing. each poem should be given the chance to speak and have a voice.
• Analyzes how dickinson's poems are written in a very peculiar manner unlike other poems of the era.
• Analyzes how dickinson's manuscripts reflect only the shadow of their inception in typography. shapes and letters pun on and play with each other.
• Opines that dickinson's poems were written sensually in her manuscripts, and any current incarnation of her work is an altered form of the original.
• Argues that a reasonable solution must be found regarding the publication of dickinson's poems.
• Explains that punctuation is just as important as words because it opens up a number of questions—questions about tone, questions about meaning.
• Explains that dashes can alter one's perception of the poem, changing the meaning of words.
• Explains that dickinson's poems deal with death or dying and other grave subjects, but a modern reader may find it difficult to decipher meaning from the poems without help.
• Explains that emily dickinson became the poet we know between 1858 and 1860. the first labor called for was to sweep away the pernicious idea of poetry as embroidery for women.
• Analyzes how dickinson wrote regularly, finding her voice and settling into a particular style of poem, proving that men were not the only ones capable of crafting intelligent, intriguing poetry.
• Analyzes how dickinson's poems were considered historically important, but were amateurish in her day. the atlantic monthly criticized her for not discerning enough to rise above conventional poetics.
• Opines that the importance of a reader's interpretation depends on what facts that reader uses when looking at the poem.
• Cites howe, susan, "some notes on visual intentionality in emily dickinson." rutgers university libraries.
• Describes green, fiona, "plainly on the other side: susan howe’s recovery." contemporary literature.
• Cites ickstadt, heinz, "emily dickinson’s place in literary history; or, the public function of a private poet."
• Cites ma, ming-qian, and howe's "scattering as behavior toward risk" in american literary history.