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...first published poet, and Emily Dickenson is of course one of the greatest of all American poets. This paper analyzes the works of the two.
Discussion
Bradstreet’s first collection was entitled The Tenth Muse and was published in 1630; her poems were quite conventional in style and form, and dealt with history and politics (Lewis). Among her subjects were the 1642 Puritan uprising led by Oliver Cromwell, and Queen Elizabeth’s accomplishments (Lewis). However, the publication of her first collection appears to have given her the confidence to attempt less conventional work, and she began to write more personally and directly – of her own experiences, of religion, of daily life, of her thoughts, of the New England landscape (Lewis).
Dickinson, of course, is known for what most critics and readers call a morbid turn of mind. Death and dying are frequent subjects in her work; her titles indicate the dark subject matter: Because I could not stop for Death is one of her most famous poems; another is ’Twas just this time...