Secondary Blog: Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was a famous American poet born in Massachusetts, and lived a life of solitude. Emily wrote in private and only a few of her almost 1800 poems were published while she was alive and those that were published were changed dramatically by her publisher to better fit the poetry style of her time. it was not until after her death, when Dickinson's sister found her poems that they were published. She never gave her poems names, so the y are identified by the order in which they were written. Throughout her poems, she uses a lot of dashes and random capitalization to create a unique body to her writing. Since most of her poems were writing in traditional patterns, they can be sang to traditional folk songs like "Amazing Grace".  Since Dickinson explored many themes, her work is not categorized into a specific genre. She often wrote about death and nature, and though she was not a transcendentalist she certainly believed in many of their virtues.