This is a brief biography of poet Emily Dickson, including her family and upbringing. It includes several of her poems, with analyses. Dickinson's poems are complex, but after studying them, this essay's author learned to find patterns and similar themes among them.

A biography of the poet Emily Dickinson and analysis of some of her works. Her poems are a reflection of her difficult life; the dichotomy of a personality of an "irreverent little girl" and "a grief-stricken, mature woman." Although the poetry is very personal, it's popularity and universality come from the fact that they can easily be read apart from Dickinson's own personal grief.

Although Emily Dickinson was a recluse for a large portion of her life, she was very intelligent and wrote about many places she had never visited.

The theme of death in four Emily Dickinson poems: "I've seen a Dying Eye," "Because I could not stop for Death," "I like a look of Agony," and "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died."

American writers such as Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville sought to distance themselves from popular culture and writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. These Transcendentalists sought to weave a new form of writing using philosophy as the "vehicle of thought."

Explores the theme of loneliness in three of Emilly Dickinson's poems. Provides biographical detail on the poet.

Emily Dickinson's poems portray the antithesis of society's shallow acceptance of life from the perspective of the successful. Three of her poems, Poems I, XVI, and XXVII, all relate to an outcast's life and circumstances. In Poem I, Dickinson explains how unsuccessful people understand the value of success; and in Poems XXVII and XVI, she glorifies the unknown people and the silent fighters.

Essay describes death in three of Emily Dickinson's poems.

In this poem by Emily Dickinson, in the first stanza we find that death is personified, death has been given human attributes. Death is personified as a gentleman or a suitor calling on a young lady.

This essay is a personal opinion supported with a personal example of Emily Dickinson's quote "A word is dead when it is said, I say it just begins to live that day."

This is a brief biography documenting the life of poet Emily Dickenson. Describes how her odd life style choice affected her writing.

A biography of Emily Dickinson, who wrote her poems in seclusion and which were not published until after her death. Her unique, unconventional poetry is considered the most lyrical poetry in all of literature.