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Emily Dickinson is widely known as an unconventional poet. She writes with unique rhythm, grammar and rhyme. In her lifetime she was relatively unknown as a poet, but not she is recognized as a phenomenal poet and perhaps one of the greatest Lyric poets of all time. Emily's poetry is very broad in subject matter. However in regards to theme, her poems are quite unified. Emily's major themes presented in her poems include: nature, love, faith, pain and death. These themes are very different in subject matter but they are unified in ones every day life. Emily's themes tend to represent the big pictures in life that people exploit, depreciate, yet brood over.

Emily has a very broad array of topics. In the poem "I like to see it lap the Miles", she talks about a train. How it operates, where it goes, what it does. But at the end of a seemingly ordinary poem she gives the reader something to ponder over. "Then- punctual as a Star. Stop- docile and omnipotent at its own stable door." In this poem she makes the reader realize what a marvelous creation a train actually is. It does have unlimited power and authority yet it yields to supervision, direction, or management from people. This situation is very similar to ones everyday life. People are omnipotent they choose to yield to a greater authority such as god, law, and conscience. The stable door represent ones values that they will not compromise because they have the power to do so. Emily constantly takes topics very general and brings questions about the bigger picture into them.

The theme of death is common through many of Emily's poems. Emily held the belief that the way someone died indicated shape of ones soul. A peaceful death represented harmony with god and the world, while a violent death was the opposite. In the poem I died for Beauty- but was scarce, Emily writes about two people who die for different causes. In the poem she focus's