A Level - English Literature

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

 Important and Common Themes
• Death and Immortality
• The Wonders of Nature
• Man and Nature
• Love, Passion and Anger
• Grief , Hope and Change
• Religion and Spirituality
 Poems with Similar Themes:
Death and Immortality
Because I could not stop for Death -
I cautious, scanned my little life -
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
It was not Death, for I stood up,
This World is not Conclusion.
'Twas the old—road—through pain—
 Poems with Similar Themes:
Man and Nature
A Bird, came down the Walk - 
A Murmur in the Trees – to note –
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
An awful Tempest mashed the air—
I dreaded that first Robin, so,
I have a Bird in spring
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
 Man and Nature Pt. 2

The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants -

The Wind—tapped like a tired Man
There came a Wind like a bugle—
What mystery pervades a well!
I have never seen “Volcanoes”—
 Poems with Similar Themes:
Love, Passion and Anger

A still — Volcano — Life —

I did not reach Thee
I have never seen “Volcanoes”—
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -
An awful Tempest mashed the air—
Wild nights - Wild nights!
 Poems with Similar Themes:
Grief, Hope and Change
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
As imperceptibly as grief
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
I can wade Grief –
I dreaded that first Robin, so,
I have a Bird in spring
I measure every Grief I meet
 Poems with Similar Themes:
Religion, Philosophy and Spirituality
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
There's a certain Slant of light, 
This World is not Conclusion
'Twas the old—road—through pain—