Emily DIckinson

Emily Dickinson has one very unique style of writing poetry. Her poems are all full of random Capitalization, punctuation, and none of the poems have titles. I think that it has to do with the fact that during her last 10 years of life, she decided to stay away from society. She refused to leave her home and wouldn't meet any strangers. So maybe this relates to her unique style of writing poetry. With her capitalizations, she puts emphasis on those specific words. For example, in her poem, "Becuase I could not stop for Death," in the line "We passed the School, where Children strove," she capitalizes School and CHildren to put emphasis on those two. "We' being the first word of the poem, is expected to be capitalized. This shows how Dickinson places great emphasis on individual words. Some other patterns that are seen throughout Emily Dickinson's works include iambic tetrameter, freedom, bird imagery (especially robins), and religion. She also puts a lot of questions in her poems. She wasn't interested in answes in her poems, but she wanted to explore questions.