Emily Dickinson Poetry

Emily Dickinson poetry was largely about nature and science. Emily Dickinson loved to write poems about love, God, death and immortality. Emily Dickinson poetry also had many riddles since Emily Dickinson loved riddles. Emily Dickinson used poetry to make the reader guess just whom or what she is describing. Emily Dickinson poetry also often use nature as a metaphor.

An example of Emily Dickinson poem showing how she used riddles in her poetry is shown below. In the poem below, Emily Dickinson confided to a friend, was about a hummingbird.

"A route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel-
A resonance of Emerald -
A rush of Cochineal-
And over blossom on the bush
Adjusts its tumbled head -
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning's Ride."

Emily Dickinson chose to think and write in her own society, rather than the society outside, which failed so at understanding her. Emily Dickinson poetry reflected her reclusivity. One of Emily Dickinson poems read:

"The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more."