Emily Dickinson used to write at the end of the romantic period, she is not considered a Romantic poet yet she was influenced by the era in a very slighty way.
The key components of the the Romantic period was the focus on emotions, melancholy, imagenative spontaneity and individualism.
One of the examples of Dickinson poetry that embrace the feautures mentioned before are ¨Much Madness is divinest Sense¨
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
Much of the work from Dickinson reflects her anger indwelled in her for society, on how she was been rejected by being herself, the autor try to evocate that ¨Madness¨ is only a definition that is people would choose to give those who want to be themselves.
She is unhappy with the system, wich encourage to accept something illogical simply because the majority accepted. The poem indeed expose a strong feeling of personal suffering.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), was influenced by Romantic Era (1800-1860) ideas and thoughts, revealing in her poems some characteristics, such as importance of nature and beauty, the constant presence of themes as death, spirituality and subjectivity. We can find some of these themes in her Poem 449, where she speaks as a person who died for beauty (death and beauty) and meet in the next tomb someone who died for truth, they conclude that they died for the same reason (spirituality and subjectivity), and they talk until the moss cover their names and their lips (nature):
"I died for Beauty--but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoing Room--
He questioned softly "Why I failed?"
"For Beauty," I replied--
"And I--for truth--Themself are One--
We Brethren, are," He said--
And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night--
We talked between the Rooms--
Until the Moss had reached our lips--
And covered up--our names-- "
