Emily Dickinson Ambiguity

Emily Dickinson’s most productive years as a poet were that of the years of the Civil War. Her interest in the war was reflected in her personal relationships with others, letters, and poems. Of Emily Dickinson’s friends, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Bowels and, Frazar Stearns were more famously known for their participation in the war. Higginson and Dickinson corresponded often during the war, which may have given her more of an insight as to what was happening on the front lines.
While Emily Dickinson’s poems are often shrouded in ambiguity, many carry undertones of the feelings caused by this particular war. The poem written by Dickinson that is most attributed to the Civil War is her poem “It feels a Shame to be Alive.” In the year