Emily Dickinson: Suffering Bright's Disease

Emily Dickinson was an outstanding writer who left behind a whole legacy of poetic work that is still read in the present. She reveals and indicated with her way of writing all the struggles and internal feelings she had when living in seclusion. She wrote approximately 1800 poems, which were later found by her family after her departure. Her poems are said to be arranged in chronological order, but if her family is the one who published her work, how are we certain she wrote them in that sequence? Emily Dickinson´s poetry section about death was written while she was suffering Bright´s disease, just before her eternal rest.
Poems 96, 479, 591, 258 and 372 were possibly not written in that same order as it is publicly stated. These centralize their themes around death, hell, heaven, pain, letting go…etc. so, if they are all theme related why would she write them separate from each other? If you are feeling some type of sadness or depression you will focus yourself in the same gloomy topics at the same time. Emily Dickinson suffered from Bright’s disease and died from it, so isn’t possible she knew she was going to die and wrote those types of poems? Isn’t it possible she expressed her internal struggle and fear of death in that collection of her writing?
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Her work was found after she had died, therefore, her family was the one who found it and displayed it to the public eye. I presuppose all her poems that talk about the ideas that surround the death concept, where written when she was sick and knew she was about to die. Her poems are too personal and strongly attached to the fear and process gone through before dying. It isn’t possible she was only feeling somber and wrote about pain, letting go and signing wills. Dickinson suffered from Bright’s disease and I believe it must have been awful, provoking those internal feelings and struggles spoken in those particular literary