Emily Dickinson is often described as morbid or obsessed with death/pain/loneliness (and she was no stranger to tragedy), but usually there is more going on in her poems than initially meets the eye.
Analyze a Dickinson poem that seems preoccupied with one or both of these things. Does she offer us something besides grief in the poem you choose, and if so, what is it?
Consider positive qualities that could emerge from her dialogues with dark subjects.1-3 citations, 1000-1200 words
