As one reads Emily Dickinson’s poems, often times his or her first thought is “Wow! I have no idea what this means!” After reading a variety of her poems, it is clear that various ideas, people, and styles played into her works. Emily Dickinson was a woman of many complex personas—which is most prevalent in the letters she wrote to her sister, Susan. Throughout Dickinson’s works, she speaks of numerous subjects not to identify their meaning, but instead to explore the way these ideas impact life. Nonetheless, Emily Dickinson’s poetry is deliberately ambiguous through her use of imagery and the unique punctuation she used. The use of imagery is a major component to the style Emily Dickinson uses in her poetry. Throughout an abundance of her