love for him, and he may be the subject of some of her love poems.When Emily had enough poems, she went to find someone who could help her and give her advice about anonymous publication. On April 15, 1862 she found Higginson. She wrote letters to him asking for advice. He was against publishing her poetry, however he did realize that Emily was talented and gifted. After the letter in 1862, Emily decided against publishing her poems, and that was why only seven of her poems were published in her lifetime. The later part of her life was spent in mourning because of several deaths in a few years time. Emilys father died in 1874, both her mother and Wadsworth in 1882, and her nephew in 1883. Over those years due to the amounts of deaths she encountered, the theme of death became more prevalent in Emilys poems. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886. As a result of her life of solitude, it is said by some that she is able to focus more on the world around her. Many of her poems were not complicated and were written on scraps of paper, such as grocery lists, and when she died and her works were published Editors began to arrange her works into categories, such as friends, nature, love, and DEATH. In 1955, Thomas Johnson published Emily Dickinsons works in their original format. In order to get a clear understanding of Emily and her works, I think it is necessary to look at one of her poems that does indeed deal with death.Because I could not stop for deathHe kindly stopped for me;the carriage held but just ourselvesand immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no hasteand I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility.We passed the school where children played,there lessons scarcely done;we passed the fields of gazing grain,we passed the setting sun.We paused before a house that seemeda swelling of the ground;the roof was scarcely visiblethe cornice but a mound.Since then tis centuries; but eachfeels shorter than the da...
