How Did The Civil War Affect Dickinson's Poems

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First, the Civil War greatly affected Dickinson’s poems. It affected a lot of women and was a major theme. Leigh-Anne Urbanowicz Marcellin, an author and publisher, has done her own studies on Dickinson. According to Marcellin (1996), “The war touched her directly, and she treated it directly. Dickinson was well-informed about the issues and events of her day” (Marcellin, 1996). She took the Civil War and make it approachable for other people like her. An example of this would be in “The name–of it–is Autumn.” In the poem, Dickinson puts the word “Autumn” in quotation marks in the first stanza. The reader can infer that she is not talking about the season. She is talking about war when right after includes the “hue” of it as being blood. In

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