Emily Dickinson is much like me. She keeps to herself and doesn’t want to be known. She just wants to be her. Emily Dickinson only had a few of her poems published in her day and they were posted anonymously. She writes what she wants with absolutely no intent of others seeing it; I adore her for that.
Dickinson’s poems are usually strangely punctuated and randomly capitalized. She could write something so meaningful in only one stanza. She wrote on whatever she could find and whatever came to mind. She didn’t like people new coming into her life- or her house. She kept to herself. I would say her only friend was her pen and she really didn’t mind.
Actually, that’s what she preferred. According to her, society was lame. She felt it is better to be nobody and be you than to be somebody and be like the rest of society. At least, that’s what her poem “I am Nobody, Who are you?” says. She calls society negative things like frogs.
She was private. She lived in the same house her whole life. People say that her poetry was more modern than the other poetry of her time. She was an individual. She lived in the same time period as the fireside poets, but she did not go to their gatherings. I hate to break it to you but She did not have tea with Longfellow.
If Emily and I lived in the same time period I think we would be friends. We do not agree with society and I’d wear the same thing everyday if I could. Apparently she wore white everyday for the last ten years of her life. Yep, sounds just like me.
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