For my analysis, I chose to compare the poems of Emily Dickinson and William Blake. Dickinson’s poem is entitled “My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun” and Blake’s poem is entitled “The Tyger.” In both poems, nature plays an important part and it is obvious to the reader that both Dickinson and Blake feel a fondness, yet a slight fear towards nature. In “My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun,” Dickinson gives the reader the …showed first 75 words of 927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 927 total…reading of comfort and familiarity. They conjure up dark thoughts as the final thoughts of the speaker are negative. Despite their somber mood, both of theses poems are worthwhile reading, and both capture an element that is now absent from American culture. Both poems have a sense of multiple emotion, but Blake’s poem is much more realized, the emotions much more original, which in the end makes his much more memorable than Dickinson’s.