Essays on Emily Dickinson

Most of Emily’s works revolve around the subject of gender roles experienced by women during the 19th Century. Back then, marriages were made out of convenience and not love. Having been subjugated by their caste system, women were not allowed to marry outside of their...

Emily Dickinson view on death was one that showed that people do not need to fear death, because death is something that all people should accept if they want to live a full life. How is death seen as an old friend to those who...

Throughout their extensive collection of poetry, we can see both a lot of similarities and differences between poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Both were poets of the nineteenth century, a time that was considered the Romantic period and a time that changed a lot...

Emily Dickinson became well-known all over the world after her death. Thanks to her sister, the rest of Dickinson’s poems were published in 1890. Mabel Loomis Todd edited contents of Dickinson’s poems. Among Emily Dickinson’s 1,775 poems, only twenty-four of them are titled. Twenty-one poems...

Emily Dickinson was and still is a well known poet. Some of her fans would even call her an artist. Her works are still being read today. She is also good at using certain wording to help her readers get more of an understanding of...

Emily Dickinson is arguably one of the greatest poets of all time. Her poetry is so abstract and meaningful that every reader gets a different view of each poem, each person has a different opinion on what the poem is about. Emily Dickinson wrote about...

In the past, sexuality was never discussed in “polite” society which often led to those with ‘different’ sexuality’s to feel isolated or disconnected from their own sexual experiences and feelings, two of these such people are Emily Dickinson and Sherwood Anderson, who included these themes...