Death, But Love, And The Mind - 969 Words

â€Å"This was a Poet – / It is That / Distills amazing sense / From Ordinary Meanings† (Dickinson, Fr 446). Emily Dickinson was that poet. Though her life was nowhere near as influential and turbulent as other poets, she managed to bring a fresh, occasionally wry outlook on ordinary things. She is popularly known today for her largely death-related poetry and reclusive lifestyle, yet her life influenced her poetry to encompass many themes, not just death, but love, nature, and the mind. â€Å"To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized.† (Poetry Foundation, 2013). Dickinson wrote largely about death, loss and pain. Many of her poems describe death as a suitor, yet a tyrant. Death was the object of fear, and yet it was a blessed way into Heaven- the ultimate release. 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