What images and key words recur in Dickinson poems

Emily Dickinson's poems fall into several topics. She wrote about nature, beauty, love, death, and faith. Images such as grass, snake and moor represent nature. A fly buzzing before death and death driving a carriage show her obsession with death. Her faith in God shows up in her mention of immortality band heave.

Dickensin orten uses "thunderbolts, brlliant light, flowers (anenomes: youth and humility), gardens, religion, dying, death.

Her favorite and most used words are listed below and accompanied by the number of times they were used throughout her works:

170: sun

141: death, face

130: god, time

125: soul

124: heart

121: night

106: love

102: bird

94: die

88: eyes

86: bee, home

82: light

77: sky