Emily Dickinson, most notably known for her somber sense of style, often seems to return to three common themes: death, solitude, and tragedy. Dickinson lived a very introverted and reclusive life, so it is not surprising that this lifestyle would influence her as a poet. The most evident theme in Dickinson’s poems is the subject of death. In fact, many of her poems are about nothing but. In Dickinson’s poem, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, she explores the reality and obscenity of death. She uses
Emily Dickinson’s I Heard a Fly Buzz and Walt Whitman’s I Hear America Singing are drastically different in many ways however the both have distinct parallel themes that both, respectively, tie the poems together as a whole. Dickinson, known for her superb form and rhythm exemplifies this in I Heard a Fly Buzz, with her use of iambic meter enhancing the flow of the song. Whitman, taking a completely different approach, uses free verse, or what many would call open verse, yet still achieves the
In the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died,” Author Emily Dickinson truly captures and builds up what it is like right before the final moments of death through universal themes like nature, religion, and other tools like imagery and figurative language. In everyday life a fly is insignificant, but Dickinson takes the aspect of a fly, which decomposes and eats dead material, and uses it as a metonomy for death. Not only that, the fly also represents the small things in life that take away from the
Emily Argenti Period: 1 Lohr 2nd Draft Though american literature many writers have influenced all people of different lifestyles though relative themes written in their works. Emily dickinson, an american poet wrote in influence of her early life themes which translated to impact those who read her poems. In all of Emily Dickinson's writing she is able to influence everyone with the themes she wrote about in her poems. Between her early life, the works she wrote, and the criticism and influence
Austin Gill Final Draft Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are known as the founders of Modern American Poetry, due to their unprecedented ways of writing poetry. Instead of following the set ways of poetry that were set in place in the times before Dickinson and Whitman, the two opened the poetry world to a more free style of writing.However, sharing the title of founders of Modern American poetry, isn’t the only commodity the two poets share. Although many believe that Dickinson and Whitman are complete