Many great authors, poets and novelists who followed the transcendentalist movement created some of the most famous works in history. One of these, Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886, was a devout transcendentalist poet, who kept to her own unique style of writing poems. She lived and wrote during the heart of the transcendentalist period and had many defining experiences during her life that shaped her writing. One of many outlining quotes from Dickinson is, “Forever is composed of nows.” This quote is saying, don’t be too caught up and concerned about the future and what will come eventually, because then you will miss the present, which could be the best moment or the pinnacle of your life. Emily Dickinson was born into a family…show more content… In Bryan Hileman’s critique of Emily Dickinson, “On Emily Dickinson and Transcendentalism,” he describes her writing style genre, and gives a short description of her background. I agree with his critique of her, in that she is a transcendentalist, even with her disagreement with her parents and her differing religious views. One example of her writing style is a line from her poem, Because I Could Not Stop For Death, “Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me” In this line she speaks of death as a person and even a friend and not an object or event. In another example from the same poem she say, “We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground, the roof was scarcely visible, the cornice in the ground.” Here she is saying the land looks barren and decaying, and that there is no control over them whether supreme or mortal. The third and final quote from the poem is, “Since then, ‘Tis centuries, and yet feels shorter than the day I surmised the horses heads were toward eternity.” In this she is saying that there is nothing after life, at least nothing that is
