Journal-Dickinson

I found it very cool to find out that most of Emily Dickinson's poems have a tune that is a tune that I enjoy to listen too. The tune that Emily Dickinson's poem goes to is Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace is a song that really gets to the heart. It is a very slow song and is very nice going. I think that that can reflect off of Emily Dickinson's poem because Emily Dickinson is a very calm person and she does a lot of things that has to do with nature. Whenever I read her poems her tone throughout the poem is sort of calm and nice to read. It seems like whenever I read the Edgar Allan Poe poems it seems like his tones were a little more assertive than Emily Dickinson's. Also another example of an assertive voice is the Devil and Tom Walker story that we read earlier in the year. When we put it on the speaker on the computer the narrator was very loud and was very scary sounding but that could be just from the story. I find that Emily Dickinson was more of a quiet writer. Her work is very calm and are very thought out well. I believe that I read that her poems were very organized and were very thought out well. She was much more organized than say Walt Whitman because Whitman did not have a set amount of words for each poem. On the other hand Dickinson did have a set amount of words for each poem and she seemed like she was much more organized from her work. Overall, I find that Dickinson's poems were fun to read because of the fact that it set the poems mood knowing that the poem could be read as the same as the song Amazing Grace. If you read a poem that does not have some calming tone to it you can read it as an assertive poem. I think that the way Dickinson's poems were written was one of the ways that she was set apart from other writers.