Emily Dickinson

   Dickinson makes me think that I need more of a historical background when reading her. She throws all of these situations into her poems which makes them tough to analyze and understand. Though this is a problem, I really enjoyed how she personifies life around her. For example, its as though she has somehow made the fly more relevant than death in her fly poem. Starting out with the line about a fly allows the reader to think about the sound of a fly while going through the rest of the poem. As we read along, Dickinson addresses death like its just one more annoying thing in life.