Paper on Emily Dickinson and T.S. Elliot style
             There is no doubt that Emily Dickinson and T. S. Elliot are two of the most influential poet of the nineteenth and twentieth century. They have created some of the greatest poems in the American history but their styles did have differences as well as some similarities. Both have written about similar topics but in their own distinct way. Their writing was also shaped by their background and religion.
             Dickinson often speaks of love in her poems, but she did it in such a way that would make people not want to fall in love. She writes about separation and parting. I believe her poetry reflects her loneliness and people that enjoy her work are in a state of want. In most of poems the theme is peaceful at first glance, but in every subsequent reading one can peel new meaning out of it. Many of her poems are dark and mysterious but all are true works of art. Her style of writing was very modern and therefore unaccepted because it was ahead of it's time.
             Elliot's poetry was modern than anything that was written before him. Eliot's unique style was wordy without being flowery, and his imagery drew from an amazing array of sources. "Prufrock" revealed Eliot's early style, where he mixed humor and pessimism. "The Waste Land" expressed his horror at the spiritual disorder of modern Europe. Some of his other works are more traditional, and with its religious emphasis, and more hopeful than his previous work.
             Some difference between Dickinson and Elliot are obvious by just looking at them. Most of Dickinson's poems are very short and simple. She introduced the use of dashes in her poems, an informal device not used by her poet before her but now commonly seen in writing. Not only does she capitalize some nouns in the middle of her poem, she also tends to capitalize verbs. This is not something that you would see in Elliot's poetry. His poems tend to be lo...