I think out of the three poets, Atwood, Plath, and Dickinson, I am most like Dickinson. All three of the poets aren’t really similar to me but I feel that I can relate more with Dickinson and her poems. I don’t usually like poems because I have a hard time understanding what the poet is saying. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed the few poems I have read by Dickinson although I don’t fully understand all of them. I really feel connected to the poems I’ve read by Dickinson even though there shouldn’t really be anything that helps me connect with the poems because I haven’t experienced the things talked about in the poems.
However, I feel attached to the poems by Dickinson unlike the other poems written by the other two authors. This is one of the reasons I feel I’m more alike with Dickinson than the other poems. I feel more connected to Dickinson’s poems than to Atwood’s or Plath’s. I feel the other two authors are too radical for me. Both portray immense emotions in their poems. Plath and Atwood had life changing experiences that greatly affect their poems and what the poems say. I feel too different from them because of my lack of emotions and people say that I am insensitive. Dickinson is also largely affected by events, such as the death of her loved ones. However her reaction and the influence of those deaths are more subtle and have a different effect on her poems.
I think that I’m alike with Dickinson in the way that she lived a secluded life and I would prefer to live in a secluded life. Dickinson didn’t live near a lot of people and kept to her area. She wasn’t totally unsocial but she wasn’t the outgoing type either. Dickinson spent a lot of time with her sister-in-law, who was one of her good friends. Even though I don’t seem like it and definitely don’t act like it, I prefer to be secluded. I’m not unsocial either and I generally get along with everyone but I feel a constant need to get away from society. I would really like to live in a secluded area, preferably in the nature, away from people but maybe not be totally cut off from society. I prefer seclusion most of the time. Dickinson may have not chosen seclusion by choice but through a set of events, but she did live a more secluded life than most people.
I think another feature that is common between me and Dickinson is the fact that religion has an influence in both of our lives. Dickinson was a Christian, although she may not have had a strong faith. Even so, I think that religion influenced her in both her writings and life. She also was raised in a Christian home. I am also a Christian and am raised in a Christian home. Christianity has definitely had an enormous impact on my life; in my thinking, in my way of living, and in my way of acting. I feel that out of the three poets, I am most similar to Dickinson.
