Emily Dickinson

As far as odd poets go, I think Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe would have gotten along famously. Having that said, I find her writing interesting and I like her almost as much as I do Poe. After reading her background introduction, I think I would have liked to meet Emily Dickinson; based on the little information surrounding her life and her take on darker themes present in her poetry, I cannot help but think that she would have been an intensely interesting person to listen to or on the other end of extreme-so introverted you wouldn’t be able to get two words out of her, maybe a poem, but not a word. After reading the poems listed for class, I still found one of my favorite being the one I read for poem of the day, which was the one about riding in carriage with polite and courteous grim reaper. (I believe the bracket number was 712). I think I find it interesting because Dickinson has a way of getting her audience to look at the darker aspects of life from a different point of view.