Dickinson

Dickinson’s Use of Figurative Language
Emily Dickinson used many different types of figurative language in her poems. Figurative language are words used apart from their ordinary literal meaning in such a way to add freshness, conciseness, and vitality to a piece of writing. Emily Dickinson adds bold images and feelings to her writing with such language. Dickinson’s most widely used types of figurative language are similes, metaphors, and personification.
First of all, a simile is a comparison of two things, basically unlike things, that have something in common. Similes use like or as. Many examples of similes are in the poem, “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died.” The speaker compares the stillness of the room where she lay dead to the stillness of the air between the heaves of a storm. With such a simile, she helps us to understand the way the room felt. She brings us into the poem. In addition, one of the similes used in ...