Emily Dickinson Accomplishments

Many of Emily Dickinson’s 1800 works were centered around topics of death, nature, and solitude. Her works and topics were based off her life experiences and feelings. In Dickinson’s early life she had many losses with people in her life. Even after her early life there were still death in the middle of her life as many near the end. Many of these losses especially the ones starting in the early life were the reason Dickinson would make many poems relating to death. When Dickinson was in her twenties, she would send many letters to friends and not receiving much made her feel upset and continuously lose friends. In her early thirties she had an obscure personal crisis to an unknown which is shown through some of her poems. These experiences seem to show why she wrote a good number of poems about solitude and being alone.

Near the end of Dickinson’s life, she would write many poems and in 1874 her father suddenly died. Dickinson’s mother became sick and died in 1882. Many deaths of her friends, Bowles, Wadsworth, Lord, Jackson, and her eight-year-old nephew Gilbert. After many of these she would stop seeing people and around the last 15-20 years of her life could be when she wrote many of her poems about death. Dickinson’s poem “Refuge” talks about “How good to be safe in tombs,/ Where nature's temper cannot reach,/ Nor vengeance ever comes!” (Dickinson), which shows how she could be thinking being dead is better and a nice thing as you do not have to deal with life and all the issues she is facing. Dickinson’s poem "Death Leaves Us Homesick”, it is talking about how death can make the ones left feel sad or lost as you can’t bring people back, “Death leaves Us homesick, who behind, / Except that it is gone … / Who something lost, the seeking for / Is all that's left them, now—”