Throughout Emily Dickinson's poetry there are three main themes that she always seem to hint on. Death, love, and nature; as well as the impact of those specific words. When discussing these themes she followed her lifestyle and breaks away from traditional forms of writing and chooses to write with an intense energy and complexity that I believe is rarely seen today and that only poets such as Shakespeare have done, before or after Dickinson. …
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…word comes from the experience behind it takes precedence over the notion that a word is wasted when the vocal chords stop moving. Words have connotations that encompass the "entire circumference" of the idea in addition to its denotative worth (54). The complexity of the single, written word defined the limits of communication between human beings and nature, therefore, symbolized is the isolation of the individual-a concept that can be seen in Dickinson's personal, reclusive life.