The_Complete_Poems

The Complete Poems Response to Emily Dickinson, Selections from “ The Complete Poems” I found Emily Dickinson to be a wonderful poet. Her way with words is astounding and timeless. To be so full of creative energy to write thousands of poems is almost incomprehensible. Although we covered several poems during class I think this response would be better served to discuss one poem in particular. I choose 241. Written around 1861, 241 is in essence a poem about the realness of people. People put on a visage. The only person we ever truly know is ourselves. Dickinson uses pain and death as a way of showing that the only time we can show our true selves is when our mind does not have time to catch up with the reactions of our bodies. When faced with great pain the body automatically true, pain, great, time, selves, self, ourselves, moment, faced, even, dickinson, way, reveal, response, realness, put, poems, poem, person, people, one, mind, essence, emily, death, body, write, words, wonderful, visage, understand, truly, trauma, timeless, thousands, though, think, states, soon, sometimes, shows, showing, show, several, served, selections, second, same, really, reacts