I Measure Every Grief I Meet, By Emily Dickinson

A literary analysis is evaluating a piece of work and discussing the writer’s interpretation of it. This is important because you want to know why the writer wrote it and where they are coming from, to know the reasons why you have to know a little bit about their background. Emily Dickinson is a perfect example because all of her writings have something to do with her life and the way she felt. Others can also easily relate to her work. Similarly, Everyone experiences the feeling of not being able to overcome sadness at least once in their lifetime. Emily Dickinson makes this feeling a reality in the poem I measure every Grief I meet. In this poem, a girl continually compares her sadness to others and tries to imagine what kind of pain they are going through so she doesn’t feel alone. The girl feels like her grief is heavier than everyone else’s but …show more content…
Dickinson portrays emotion and how difficult it is to live with grief and also shows what someone would do mentally to overcome what they are going through.
Dickinson’s poems relate back to her life in many different ways. For instance, growing up she struggled with what could have been depression and/or anxiety, and she shows the grief and the pain in her writings. Furthermore, her poems are so famous because people have felt what she has felt and can strongly relate to a lot of points in her writings. In the poem, I measure every Grief I meet, the speaker talks about how every person they come across that are sad she tries to measure their grief and then she also tries to compare it to her own. She doesn’t come out and say