Emily Dickenson, another really great American poet, wrote in one of her poems, “This is the letter my letter to the World/ That never wrote to me.” By looking at these words, she seems to be a pretty pessimistic and lonely person. To me, she feels as though she is trying to reach out to the world by communicating to it through letter, but the world is too big and too busy that the letter just got lost somehow and no letter is returned to her. She feels overshadowed by all the other things going on in the world. Because Emily Dickenson is a recluse, she is not very connected to the rest of the world. She doesn’t have much interaction with people. To me an analogy to this line of the poem is like a person yelling at a valley. There is no response but the echo of your own voice coming back to haunt you and remind you of your loneliness. I feel like Whitman and Dickenson are two very different types of people. While Whitman tries to go out and experience the world through everyone’s perspective, Dickenson stays home and wrote sorrowful poems about life and nature.
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