Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems
What images and key words recur in Dickinson poems
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Emily Dickinson's poems fall into several topics. She wrote about nature, beauty, love, death, and faith. Images such as grass, snake and moor represent nature. A fly buzzing before death and death driving a carriage show her obsession with death. Her faith in God shows up in her mention of immortality band heave.
Dickensin orten uses "thunderbolts, brlliant light, flowers (anenomes: youth and humility), gardens, religion, dying, death.
Her favorite and most used words are listed below and accompanied by the number of times they were used throughout her works:
170: sun
141: death, face
130: god, time
125: soul
124: heart
121: night
106: love
102: bird
94: die
88: eyes
86: bee, home
82: light
77: sky