Emily Dickinson’s most Well Known Poem

Because I Could Not Stop For Death is the silent yet loud individual; Emily Dickinson's, most well known poem.(Tate 37).It was written in the '60s of the 19th century during the end of romanticism and beginning of the realism literary movement. (Napierkowski 31). Romanticism [emphasized] strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on such emotions as sadness, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of nature.(Penny's Poetry Pages Wiki). Although Dickinson has received her ideas from the romantic era, [she] is more a realistic writer.(Poetry Foundation). Realism was an artistic movement that began... after the revolution of 1848 in France in the 1850s. (Art Movement). They had rejected Romanticism, [dominating] French literature and art since the end of the 18th century. (Raven).It had revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic [movement]. (Raven). The reoccurrence of death had an impact on Dickinson poetry; It had led her to write by her fears, anxiety, and frustration(Dickinson). She did not adhere to any specific poetry format, such as imperfect iambic meter, and controversial subject.(Upinvermont).Furthermore, dashes and random capitalization were used quite commonly in Dickinson time period. Peak states that function, hyphens, em dashes and en dashes are essential marks in workplace writing(Peak). Other writers of the realism movement include Mark Twain; George Eliot; Henry James(The Literature Network); and much more. The psychological effects of events that took place in Emily Dickenson's life and how they influenced the theme of her writings. Her poems seem very dark to the predominance of her poetry. It had happened that her poems trace back to death, and it is quite impossible to ignore the morbidity in Emily's poems. (Biography Online).There are quite a few people out in the world that believe her relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth had a great effect upon the darkness in her poetry, especially throughout the poem I had a funeral in my brain. Emily is portrayed as being isolated and lonely.(Healt). [She] stands among the greatest poets produced by America and perhaps the English-speaking world. Her voice and verbal artistry are unique, and her themes are both ageless and universal.(Cornelius). Focusing on I had a funeral in my brain is clearly as it sounds; contributing to death. Dickinson wrote not only to note the pervasiveness of death as ending, but also to explore the very nature of death itself.(Robert).

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