Emily+Dickinson

== = = = = =Death Poem:= This poem by Emily Dickinson answers two of the questions about death. The poem answers "What is death?" and "What is it like to die?" Dickinson compares death as someone waiting to take you, and once your time has come he comes and picks you up to take you away. She describes death as being uncontrollable and your time will come whenever they are ready for you. She also asnwers the question "What is it like to die?" She says when you die that it is like going on a journey through your entire life. She shows this in the poem when she talks about passing by the children at recess, or the fields of grain. Dickinson doesn't make death sound like a bad thing. In her poems she almost sounds like she is ready for death.

=God Poem:= This poem by Emily Dickinson portrays her view on god. Like many of Dickinson's poems she does not just come out and say that she is talking about god. Once you annotate the poem several times you are able to conclude that she is talking about god. In this poem she shows that she is not a very big fan of god what so ever. She portrays god very negatively. The words she uses have a negative connotation and make god sound ferocious and mean. She uses words like "scalps" to describe god. I concluded after reading this poem that she is not a big fan of god because he controls absolutely everything.

="Transcendental" Poetry:= This selection of poems by Emily Dickinson exemplifies transcendentalism. They involve nature and self conformity, two important terms in transcendentalism. Emily Dickinson, however, was not a transcendentalist herself. Her poems may involve some transcendental thoughts and ideas, but she as a person was just soul searching, not hoping to preach transcendentalism.