Journal Sixteen- Emily Dickinson

The Album for Emily Dickinson is all about Dickinson and her life. It starts out talking about where she was born, Amherst, Massachusetts, and how she died in the same town she was born in. It says that she rarely ever left her home, but even though she rarely left, she was still very educated. She was educated by a woman who taught her many things such as science and she also read a lot of books in her lifetime. Her father was a lawyer, so she associated a lot with many people who associated with him. Even though she did not get out much, she had a variety of friends in which she exchanged letters to constantly. Dickinson is most famous of all for her poems, though. She had created almost 1,800 poems all without a title. She created her poems about many things such as other people that she knew, and even herself. She wrote poems about how she was feeling, what she did, and even what she wanted to do.
One of my favorite poems by Dickinson is Success, because it talks about how "Success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne'er succeed" which is really true. She means that people try to act like they have actually done something significant in there life, and try and gloat and take credit for someone else's work, when they have nothing to show for it and have nothing to do with it or have not done anything at all.
Another good poem is in the "album" and it is called "Because I could not stop for Death-" and in this poem is where I first noticed her use of capitalizations in the strangest places. This is also where I noticed her use of "-" at the ends of the lines.
Overall, I really like Emily Dickinson's poems because they are interesting, and they make you think about things when you read them. They also make you wonder how she really felt and what she really meant when she said the things she said in her poems.


Work Cited

Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Emily Dickinson: An Album." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 1160-169. Print.