Analysis Of Know How To Forget By Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was a middle child, and a grand-daughter of Samuel Dickinson whose was the founder of the Amherst College. In theory, people offered said she dropped out of school, began to write as a teenager, and become an American poet. Dickinson was unnamed in her own century until the posthumously and her syntax. Some of her work was published at the time of Dickinson death. Thankful for her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, had published most of Dickinson’s poems after her death and the rest in 1890. Dickinson wrote many poems but gave title to only twenty-four poems, twenty of them are for her friends and three were in the packet, the rest of them she used the first line of the poem as the title, “Know How to Forget!” (433) was one of a great poem Dickinson used the first line as the title. Dickinson wrote that poem with confused, loss and sadness hiding behind the poem.

In the poem “Knows How to Forget!” (433) the author, Emily Dickinson also the speaker, she mostly wrote the poem with her personal experience, as a reader, one can picture what is going on while reading this poem and have see through her heart with the thought at the time she wrote the poem. There is a hiding theme of death in this poem, loose a love one is very hard, and to express the feeling or talk it out by writing the poem will take the mind away for a while. In the first two line when she said, “Knows how to forget! But could it teach it” seem like the author was in a situation of missing someone