Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Do you think the poet is A nature lover

Give examples from the poem to support your view

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Yes Emily was a nature lover! One common theme in Emily's imagery consists of references to trees, flowers and animals. There was apparently a garden near Emily's home where she spent much of her time observing nature. In Poem 841, for example, Emily writes about a moth. In her conclusion Emily states the moth shows that nature is as fond of jewelry as a girl. Emily talks about the joy of nature in Poem 868. She writes she believes flowers and plants grow just for the purpose of bringing smiles to the faces of humans, even if they have little or no money.

In addition to her poems that are strictly about nature, Emily also incorporates references to nature in her other poems. For instance in Poem 254 Emily uses the idea of a bird to describe the nature of hope. Although she does not name this image a bird until the second stanza of the poem, her references to feathers, singing and perching in the first stanza lead the mind to picture hope as a bird.