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Critics now days think of Emilys poetry as very open to speculation, since her poems are so difficult, is not completely
impossible to understand or analyze. Emily was almost unknown as a poet in her lifetime, but is now recognized by many as
one of the greatest poets, and the greatest Lyrical Poet of all time. Some critics have tried to explain her poetry by looking
at her life, and some try to explain the life of Emily by looking at and trying to understand her poetry. Homosexuality is
found within her poets to Gender Critics, Some Feminist critics see evidence that she was a victim in particular by her Father
of patriarchy (where the father is the supreme authority in the household). Emily Dickinson wrote more then 1700 poems so
critics find it somewhat easy to find evidence of their theories in her poetry.
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Some Critics say that if Emilys poetry was published during her lifetime and had gotten negative criticism it would have
brought her into a more solitary state of her existance, which possibly they think could have led to complete silence from
the poet. Critics say that Emily was not writing her poetry to please the critics eyes, because at that time they were not
ready for her originality or her intense style of poems. Emily did have a very close friend that she wrote many letters too,
his name was T.W. Higginson and he was a literary critic that Emily often turned to for advice and considered him her
"safest friend". Some say he helped her establish her own private poetic method. Through Emilys hard times she wrote poems
even Higginson could not comprehend or even begin to understand. "If fame belonged to me," she told Higginson, "I could not
escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase.… My barefoot rank is better." Only about 10
of Emilys poems were published during her lifetime, it wasn't until the 21st century that Emily Dickinson finally got the
respect her poems demanded.
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