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Personal Response To The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson

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Personal response to the poetry of Emily Dickinson After studying six poets on my Leaving Certificate course I can say that the work of Emily Dickinson, is one that appeals the most to me. She can give me a journey of variety of emotions while showing the intensity of emotions in every poem of hers I have studied. Studying her poems in depth made me appreciate her unique vision and memorable style. In both, ‘I felt a funeral in my brain’ and ‘I heard a fly buzz- when I died’, we can see her describing a mental breakdown and death. We can see moments of ecstasy and depression in ‘The soul has bandaged moments’. There’s also outright celebration and joy in ‘ I taste a liquor never brewed’. Over the course of this essay I will discuss how Emily Dickinson can bring me from emotions of great despair to great ecstasy. I will begin with ‘I felt a funeral, in my brain’, which shocked me with the speakers’ vivid description of descent into madness. The poem captures the horror of losing sanity by the use of a funeral as a metaphor. A funeral, filled with control and order, can be contrasted with the very lack of control over the speaker’s loss of reason. The fact that the speaker actually ‘felt’ the funeral shows that she’s not only observing the funeral but also participating in it. The mourners may symbolise the speaker’s pain. Their ‘treading- treading’ indicates a pressure that pushed the speaker down and allowed ‘ that sense’ to escape. I think that Dickinson wanted to show

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