Essay 2 (Emily Dickinson)

Emily Dickinson is known mainly for her solitude and rebellious behavior in her writing and in her life. Her writing style was very different from the typical writing style of most poets in her day; she uses dashes and capital letters in places in her poetry that would have been frowned upon by most other poets and publishers. Her rebellious nature isn't only in her style of poetry but in the topics of her poetry as well. For instance, in one of her poems (A Narrow Fellow in the Grass) she writes about nature and a snake. At that time, women were expected to stay inside and take care of the children and the house, men were the ones who went out and hunted and experienced nature. The fact that she wrote about nature shows that she has experienced it at least a few times in her life, which at the time would have been frowned upon. She is definitely a rebellious and unusual poet for her time and that is very admirable to me. She had the courage to be different and express it in a way that was specific to her and rebellious in and of itself.