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An analysis of Emily Dickinsons poems themes Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a famous American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life, as a result of Emily Dickinsons life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time - contemporary authors who had no effect on her writing. Dickinson left no formal statement of her aesthetic intentions and, because of the variety of her themes, her work does not fit conveniently into any one genre. But some themes were frequently appeared in her poems, Dickinson payed high attention to these themes, were we can make an analysis of this. Flowers and gardens. Dickinsons poems and letters almost wholly concern flowers and that allusions to gardens often refer to an imaginative realm ... wherein flowers are often emblems for actions and emotions. She associates some flowers, like gentians and anemones, with youth and humility; others with prudence and insight. The Master poems. Dickinson left a large number of poems addressed to Signor, Sir and Master, who is characterized as Dickinsons lover for all eternity. These confessional poems are often searing in their self-inquiry and harrowing to the reader and typically take their metaphors from texts and paintings of Dickinsons day. Morbidity. Dickinsons poems reflect her early and lifelong fascination with illness, dying and death, her poems allude to death by many methods: crucifixion, drowning, hanging, suffocation, freezing, premature burial, shooting, stabbing and guillotinage. She reserved her sharpest insights into the death blow aimed by God and the funeral in the brain, often reinforced by images of thirst and starvation. Dickinsons most psychologically complex poems explore the theme that the loss of hunger for life causes the death of self and place this at the interface of murder and suicide. Gospel poems. Throughout her life, Dickinson wrote poems reflecting a preoccupation with the