Emily Dickinson Transcendentalism

Emily Dickinson was a very popular writer in the age of Transcendentalism. She was well known for her morbid and dark writing. While she was very famous, she hardly knew it. She died of illness in May of 1886. She was a very isolated person. After her father died, she stopped going places and cut many of the friendships she had.
One of the most well known poems by Dickinson was ‘Because I could not stop for Death’. This poem had a very simple meaning behind it yet it was complex all at the same time. While some can easily understand what she’s really saying, it’s hard for other people to understand. She made it seem as if death was a physical being in her poem, like she was going for a ride in death’s carriage. Although she is ill, she is not dead but she makes it obvious that she has thought about it. This poem points out that she thought very morbidly, one of the reason’s people find her most of work ‘creepy’.
Another one of her famous poems is called ‘I heard a fly buzz- when I died’. It seems that it’s only about her staring at a fly while she died but in reality there is much more to it. In a way, she is comparing death to a fly. Talking about how she looks at life slowing down and such. One of the biggest details, signifying …show more content…
In BICNSFD, she talks about how she is slowly reflecting and cherishing what she has left in life, looking at the good things and such. She also looks at the bad things, realizing that she wished she would have been married or had kids. But in IHAFB, she reflects on her life but also decides that she is giving up all her hard work and important things. She stops and realizes that she has lost herself so there is nothing left to do but sit and watch her life slowly go away. While the poems are different in the tone aspect, the main topic is the same. They are both reflecting on life and talking about