Emily Dickinson's Writing Style

Emily Dickinson, along with Walt Whitman, does not fall into a specific literary period. They are called Tweeners because their styles consisit of writing styles from both the Realism and Moderinsim period. (Totally off topic, but I like how it is DickinSON and whitMan, just two kind of guys. Okay now back to the blog.) She is a very unique writer and tried to keep her poems in a very simple format. She uses puncuation a lot in her poems to let out a certain emotion through the writing. Her poems are very emotional and personal. In the poems you could figure out a lot about Emily's life and how she felt.
Dickinson's poems were full of detail. She really appreciates that she is alive. The life that she is in may not be perfect but, the fact that she has it is the most important thing. She tends to look at little things in life that most people may over look and she really examines and appreciates them. Such as things in nature. Dickinson believes that nature is a source of beauty and joy. But, there could be a negative side of nature as well. She connects nature with death and makes it seem like a dark, dangerous thing. She writes about death, life and immorality and connects these ideas through nature.(McChesney) But, the natural things are not always so serious. She does gain happiness from the nature around her.
But her poems were not always dark like this. Actually, she tended to write about the light fluffy things in life. She incorporated love and religion in her writings. This makes sense because Emily was raised up as a very religious child. She often refers to her poems as if she was a child again and this is where the religion come into play. But as she grew older she started to question her religion a bit. She believed in individual faith over all. What you do privately is more important than what comes out in front of others. As long as you know you are a good, faithful person than God will be happy with you. It matters that you're soul is clean. So she does question the common religious person. Personal faith is more important than showing it off to the world.

McChesney, Sandra. "A View from the Window: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson." In
Harold Bloom, ed. Emily Dickinson, Bloom's BioCritiques. Philadelphia: Chelsea
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