Emily Dickinson Research Paper

Emily Dickinson had many different writing, most of which revolved around the same common themes. She didn’t want her works published, and kept most of it private until she died. Many wonder why she wanted no attention during her lifetime, when her poems said differently. What were the reasons she wrote using the same common themes? Maybe because of the way she was raised, or maybe because she was writing what she felt rather than saying it to the world, maybe both. Emily Dickinson sure did have a lot of different ways of speaking through her literary works. The many poems she wrote, she had many reasons for; the themes the poems were based off of showed so much about how things were and what she believed in during her lifetime.
Emily was of Puritan descent, most of her life was based off of that. She never left her home and spent most of her days alone (Faulkner 802). She was one who never asked for attention, but her poetry said otherwise (Cornelius npg). Emily wasn’t always understood or appreciated (Faulkner 803). This is one thing that can explain why most of her days were spent in her room writing, and why she never went out and just communicated through letters rather than in person like most people. Then again she probably just wanted to be alone to study and write. But really in her …show more content…
Who are you?” The theme of this poem was life. During her lifetime, under the law she was looked at as a nobody (Leiter npg). But she had to have been somebody, with all of her great writings. Since she was a women in the 19th century, it was harder for them, most women kept a “low profile” (Leiter npg). She wrote the poem and it seemed to express the lifestyle in that period. The role she played in her time was like any other women, nobody and alone. Which may have explained why she was alone and wrote so much. This poem along with many others was about life and how it was during her