Emily Dickinson: The Predominance of Pain in Her Poetry

Emily Dickinson is one of those few literary artists of America who have both tantalized and inspired the critics. She gave herself to poetry as a sage gives himself to meditation. She has written poems on Melancholy and depression. She did this because she came to the conclusion that pain and suffering are the lot of the entire mankind. Her faith was that pain and sufferings are as integral to life as bliss and ecstasy. Emily went to the extent of thinking that it is pain and agony in life that leads to our enlightenment.