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Emily Dickinson is a well-known poet and I've always admired the work that she has done. Poetry is something that I've always enjoyed reading, because it is a short and fun read. I like the rhyme scheme and moods that a short poem can create. Emily Dickinson is well-known for her use of death in her poems, something that most poets try to stay away from.  She made people want to read about topics that they may not have normally. I began reading Emily Dickinson’s work as a freshman in high school and continued to throughout college. Her poetry is one of the few that I enjoy reading. She has a different approach to poetry that I have always enjoy. She has a focus on the topic of death, but she also has poetry with a lighter tone. All her work is well-written, and it really helps me to appreciate the variety of poetry that’s out there.

As a future English teacher, I will be teaching my students about the poetry genre. I think that it is important for my students to learn about past poets and their work like Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, etc. I want them to learn about the poets who made an impact on the way we thought about poetry. The ones who made poetry the way that it is today. Although the older well-known poets have passed on, I think it is important to incorporate their work into the classroom. I want to teach them about these well-known poets and their work so that my students can learn to appreciate the older poetry.

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Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth’s superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind —

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain ;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

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I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you — Nobody — Too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell! They’d banish us — you know!

How dreary — to be — Somebody!

How public — like a Frog —

To tell one’s name — the livelong June —

To an admiring Bog!

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

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1851: "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
"The Soul unto itself"
1860: "The Outlet"
1861: "Wild Nights-Wild Nights"
1886: "Winter is good-his Hoar Delights"
1890: "Like Brooms of Steel"
"I tie my Hat-I crease my Shawl"
"Knows how to forget"
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"
"One day is there of the series"
"The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman"
"Come Slowly-Eden"
"Luck is not chance"
"Color-Caste-Denomination"
"My life closed twice before its close"
"Two Butterflies went out at Noon-"
"I could Suffice for him, I knew"
"I like to see it lap the Miles"
"One Sister have I in our house"
"A Man may make a remark"
"It sifts from Leaden Sieves-"
"Besides the Autumn poets sings"
"The Soul selects her own Society"
"We never know how high we are"
"A Drop fell on the Apple Tree"
"It was not Death, for I stood up"
"It's all I have to bring today"
"There is no frigate like a book"
"A Bird came down the Walk"
"A lane of Yellow led the eye"
"Dear March-Come in"
1891: "A Day"
1951: "The Soul has bandaged moments"
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
"To make a prairie"
"There's a certain slant of light"
"I measure every grief I meet"
"I cannot live with you"
"I felt a funeral in my brain"
"Because I could not stop for death
1957: "Fame is a fickle food"
1998: "I heard a fly buzz"
2015:"If I Should Die"

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Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Crash Course English Lit #8

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Success is counted sweetest,
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purpose Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated - dying -
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

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Emily Dickinson Museum - Amherst, Massachusetts

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Success is counted sweetest, By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purpose Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory As he defeated - dying - On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!