Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was a truly underrated poet for many years. Like many artists, her work was not fully appreciated until far after her death. Like many in the Romantic period, Dickinson stretched out and used her poems in a much different light than tradition called for. She used her poems to truly express herself and talk about her life. She used them to write about feelings and people she held very dear to her.

Her unusual use of dashes and capitalization added zest to her works. It seems she was fascinated with mysticism and mannerism, and her failure to conform became accepted by later generations of readers. A lot of her published works can be almost sung to the tunes of songs. Her language flows and smoothly leaves the tongue.

I am not sure what else I can say to reach my 250 word minimum except that I enjoyed her poems.