10/29/14

So, Emily Dickinson. We've touched on her in American Literature and I just wanted to address the question that I included in my Poetry presentation. My question being, "Since Emily's poems were mostly published after her death, and that's when her fame occurred, did she intend for this poem's meaning to describe her life?" The poem I chose was poem 816 which talked about a person not becoming "alive" until after their death. Going with the literal meaning of death and the metaphorical meaning for life. Where life is a new beginning, or the start of your legacy. Basically Anne Frank. She wasn't important until she died. So, did Emily intend for this poem to be about her? Did she somehow know that her poems were going to be published? Could she predict the future? I am honestly thinking she could. Call me crazy but I believe something that I learned from a television series I watched bunch of summers ago called Ancient Aliens. The thing that was said is that people (Jesus for example) from the past, usually with great importance, could possibly be someone from the future who went back in time to tell us something. Was Emily a person who is from the future? Maybe this is a weird, disorganized topic, but my question made me think about a lot.