EMILY DICKINSON AND LOVE POEMS

For all the many short poems about love- usually unrequited and meant to be seen as a lonely person trying to reach out, Miss Dickinson never married., In fact, she hardly ever left her father's house and saw practically no one. Since she was a preacher's daughter the idea and ideal of God was evident in a number of her poems. Perhaps it is this biographical fact that give astonishing sadness and passion that would never really be answered in her love poems.

One example, a heartbreaking one, is "You left me, sweet, two legacies". She calls these two legacies "A legacy of love a Heavenly Father would content Had He the offer of. You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea" (Dickinson l 1-6). If one examines her rather lonely and inner-directed life, desp

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