How Does Emily Dickinson's Emotions Affect Literature

Many authors who write literature seem to put their feelings and emotions from their life into their art. Authors such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Kafka put their own emotions and even occurrences from their life into their literature. This shows how their view affects the way they write their stories as well as how in depth they go, giving the literature much more interesting and pursuing a greater experience for the reader.
Emily Dickinson inserts an abundance of her emotions and feelings into her works and it shows through the point of view. A poem that applies to this concept by Dickinson is “ I Cannot Live With You”, which shows how she feels about life and the regards of which fate had designated to her. Dickinson found “ecstasy in living” (Donoghue), provided through her beliefs that stand out in the poem. Dickinson writes about how she cannot live with a man or fall in love because it would diminish her outlook on existence. However, Dickinson’s love …show more content…
Dickinson also shows her beliefs through her poem “I Heard A Fly- When I Died”. Dickinson always questioned death to the point she was nearly obsessed, This poem explains a narrator in a room staring at the light on the ceiling, close to death when a fly gets in the way to where she can not see, which resembles death. the fly was a symbol for God in which Dickinson did often question the existence of. Dickinson shows her true beliefs by comparing God to a fly that takes her life away almost as a nuisance showing her doubt and perspective towards the situation. Dickinson’s obsession with death also affects her poems by mainly being what most of them are about such as “