Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. One of the things that made Emily Dickinson very different was that she was not very social. She had a few very close relationships with people, but other than that she rarely left the house. But she wrote poetry all the time. The poem that I chose to read by Emily Dickinson was the poem "Nature, is what we see." I chose this poem because I thought it would be more of a challenge to write about just because it is a very simple, yet thought provoking poem. Basically, Emily Dickinson talks about nature and how it is so nice in its simplicity. However, she also says that even though it is simple, it is too wonderful for us to even describe it. At least, that's what I took from this poem. "Nature is what we know—Yet have no art to say— So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity" (Dickinson). That quote was when she was talking about nature's beautiful simplicity.
I think that this poem definitely relates to both Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Henry Thoreau. Both of those guys really liked nature and talked about it a lot. They both had many philosophies on nature. For example, Emerson strongly believed that things in nature offered simplicity, happiness and a sense of respect. He also states, "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!" (Emerson). Now, Thoreau also has many philosophies on nature as well. Thoreau quotes on more than one occasion, "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (Thoreau). So, all three of them (Dickinson, Emerson, and Thoreau) all believed in the wonderful design that nature is, yet it is its simplicity that makes it wonderful. I liked this poem and all of their views on nature. Even though all of them are very alike in their views, it is weird to think how different they probably were.
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