Essay Instructions: – Essay must be four complete pages minimum – Three sources:

Essay Instructions:
– Essay must be four complete pages minimum
– Three sources: two academic articles from the JSTOR database and the following textbook (Norton Anthology of American Literature, The Beginnings to 1865 Shorter Tenth Edition or Shorter Ninth Edition)
-Must contain a bold thesis statement, in-text citations, Works Cited, double space, page numbers, 12-font size, and Times New Roman font style.
Essay Topic:
-Emily Dickinson’s Themes in Her Poetry
-Thomas Wentworth Higginson famously suggested some categories for sorting out Dickinson’s themes and recurring interests, and these categories have endured, inflected though they might be with certain Gilded Age inhibitions. Those categories were “life,” “love,” “nature,” “time,” and “eternity.” Modifying or updating them slightly to countenance the fact that some of Dickinson’s thinking—or aspirations or terrors— seem more modern or modernist than Higginson might have liked, we can experiment with reading poems in groups so you can recognize recurring themes and essential variations on those themes:
-“Sexuality, desire, and love: 39; 225; 269; 409”
-Select 2-3 poems from the “Sexuality, desire, and love” group with the number poems listed above to analyze. Use the theme as your focus.