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"The poetry of Emily Dickinson is almost completely abstract and isolated from its time" How far do you find this an appropriate evaluation of Emily Dickinson's poetry?
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"The poetry of Emily Dickinson is almost completely abstract and isolated from its time" How far do you find this an appropriate evaluation of Emily Dickinson's poetry? It can be said without doubt that Emily Dickinson was one of the revolutionaries of her time. Even though her poetry can be loosely linked with certain movements of her period, it is different to that of her contemporaries particularly stylistically and in her approach to the use of language. The metaphysical poets were most obviously present from the late 1500's to the mid 1600, almost 200 years before Emil Dickinson was born. Yet, strikingly, she shares a great deal with these poets: The metaphysical poets used bold language that frequently included extended similes and conceited metaphors. Most famously the comparison of the two legs of a compass to two lovers, by John Donne in 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'. Dickinson's poetry is scattered with conceited metaphors...
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