Poetry is written words which express meaning and bring life to those words. Emily Dickinson is simply stating that poetry is something the reader has to feel, without any feeling for the issue at hand, one can not truly understand poetry. If you do not have similar emotions as the writer, you can not understand what message the writer is trying to convey to you. Through the complicated twists of literal and figurative meanings a …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…as the writer. Poems are messages, stories, and life lessons that can be used or just forgotten. A good poem is one that evokes your feelings and stays with you for all of time. Dickinson’s joy is experiencing poetry and writing it for others who want to experience that same joy. A poem just needs to be understood and in life one day, what has been learned could lend a hand in the future.