What Is The Theme Of Death In Emily Dickinson's Poetry

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Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. She was the Middle child of her brother Edward or Austin and her sister Lavinia. Her father was a prominent lawyer who was active in civic affairs. Her country was New England. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on Dec. 10, 1830.She was exclusive, and much about her is unknown. She never married, and after turning thirty, Seldom saw anyone other than her immediate family. She spent almost all her life in her place. Emily has 1 brother and one sister. Emily did what she does now before like way before she was famous for what she does now which is writes poets and stuff like that. As a child she wrote poets And talked about endless summers in some of her poets that …show more content…
Emily Dickinson also worked for the president so i guess if she didn't get famous for having or making poets or poems then she would be famous and wealthy because she obviously works for the president. Death was important to Emily Dickinson. Out of some one thousand and seven hundred poems, perhaps some "five to six hundred" are concerned with the theme of death; other estimates suggest that the figure may be nearer to a half.Critics differ on the general role and meaning of death in Dickinson's poetry. Thomas H. Johnson, her editor and biographer, suggests that, for the poet, death is a mystery to be explored, but he maintains that Dickinson remained undecided as to a solution throughout her work.2 Poetry as the exploration of limits is a central aspect of Jane Donahue Eberwein, Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation she finds the poet fascinated with death as the ultimate form of limitation and transformation: "Death as circumference dominated her thoughts" (Eberwein 199). Eschatology, the doctrine of last things of which death is but the first, is given, in Virginia H. Oliver's Apocalypse of Green, as the frame within which Dickinson tests her religion, her faith, and her belief through the medium of her poetry. That's my 800 words on the person i got

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