Live_Life

Live Life Live, Living Life At first glance, Emily Dickinson’s poem #470 seems to be written by a depressed and apathetic person. However, upon further examination, it is clear she is not depressed or apathetic. She is, in fact, enlightened and concerned. Emily Dickinson detests “accepted society.” She believes it is a void, which one cannot easily escape from, and she feels the need to enlighten her readers and give them ability and drive to break the chains of imprisonment. Dickinson’s consistent and constant use of the same forms of meter, tone, rhythm, and sound brilliantly creates a level of security and stability in the poem, which she destroys in an effort to emphasize the instability, chaos, and false security in “accepted society,” as well as point out her view of how to overcome these tribulations. Initially, the poem seems to be a call from a very depressed author who “guesses” she is alive and dreams of her own funeral. While reading the poem for the first time, one immediately falls into the rhythm and “flows” with the poem. The iambic meter, the meter and style of normal speech, is easy to read and not very taxing poem, society, life, dickinson, alive, tone, security, meter, one, true, thee, rhythm, freedom, believes, words, while, reveal, reading, reader, order, iambic, everything, emily, disgust, control, accepted, view, now, need, meaning, herself, happy, gender, free