The recluse of Amherst, Emily Dickinson was one of the most original writers of nineteenth century America. Her brevity, compactness, conciseness, riddles, irony, ambiguity, epithets, hyperboles, new words coined by her, all have helped to change her style with life. She wrote of God, man and nature and knew love and death intimately as few ever did. This critical evaluation of her poems according to the thematic pattern reveals Emily Dickinson's honest efforts ...