Daniel Garza Brinda Roy 12/12/16 Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. The next year should not attend because of her health. (Brand, Gerhard)Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her poetry. When Emily Dickinson first started to write she did not have the freedom that a normal person would have, she would lock herself in her room where she would not interact with anyone besides a few family members. The turning point in Dickinson's career as a poet, and hence in her life, came in her late twenties. …show more content…
Shows how annoyed she was about men, “Prayer is the little implement through which men reach Where presence is denied them.” (Wetzsteon, Rachel)Her reasoning is that, god is very forgiving but not enough to save these men. That god will not accept these men because the bad deeds that have committed. “This sums the apparatus Comprised in prayer.”(Wetzsteon, Rachel) Understanding her reasoning is that when they try to ask for forgiveness because they have a forgiving god he will forgive their sins. Dickinson is religious person so quite a few of her poems will have god as the main character in her poems. VII the title given to this poem of Emily Dickinson’s poems in The collected Poems of Emily Dickinson in chapter Love. Her loneliness that she had felt when she locked herself in her room was portrayed in this poem. “I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too.” (Wetzsteon, Rachel) The deeper meaning is that the person that is I in this writing is god, and the flower could represent a cross that might be worn for a signal of …show more content…
Who are you? And how she relates to the reader, to her so we feel closer to her and to further her development to show how she was jealous and angry. When her poetry was better than men's that were get awards and hers were not even getting even published, and the reason she is not up front about it is because she feels not inclined to tell people about her poetry if they continue to admire other poets that are not as good as her, “How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog To tell one’s name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog.”(Kennedy, X.J., and Dana Gioia) She compares the poets that are getting notices and bragging of their poetry, and that they are frogs. And the reason she feels this way is because readers except these types of poets she feels like they don't deserve her amazing