Special Moments In The Life Of Emily Dickinson

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At one point or another, we must come to an agreement that everyone sees everything differently from one person to the next, opinions are widely different and very diverse, however; there are many subjects which only broadens the spectrum even more than before. Now some people choose to keep their opinions behind closed doors, mostly for the sole purpose that they are not harshly judged by the other individuals that they may happen to be around in just a regular day. Judgement is just something that most people partake in, this can harm people in many ways than just one, every person has feelings and those types of things can be taken to heart especially if they feel strongly about whatever the subject may be. One of the most probably profound authors of the time was Emily Dickinson who was born in 1830 and she was very sociable as a teenager, however, when she came into her …show more content…
One could say that Emily captured these moments in the words that she wrote throughout the years, though, the things she wrote might have been the special moments that she encountered since some were published during her lifetime. Everything needs to be captured perfectly and they are defining things, whether or not the person holds them close then that’s how they truly can be defined and it gives us an opportunity to see who they are. The pieces she wrote captured aspects of her life, whether morbid or happy, they were still very much captured in the words that she wrote on various different sheets of paper. Dickinson in her writing “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” says, “I willed my Keepsakes- Signed away” (411). With the Oracle thing, she appears to be capturing the moments before she dies, this kind of goes to show that she is more of the pessimistic type of person, she captures the more bizarre moments of her

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