Journal #27 - Emily Dickinson

I think that Emily Dickinson's poems fit well with the song Amazing Grace because the song itself is very emotional and significant. She really felt impressed to write of her personal feelings and better herself. I think that Dickinson was trying to better herself in her life and help herself be an all around good person through her poetry. In the song, the infamous line "that saved a wretch like me" is a very important and impacting verse. The rhyme scheme in both Dickinson's poem and Amazing Grace is also a key reason that the poem/songs became popular. The hymnals are used because they are very generic and I think everyone could relate to them. Dickinson was known for doing this with her poems because I believe it was her way of connecting with both hymns and herself. Amazing Grace was really popular in the day because it sent such an inspiring and motivational message to its listeners. People were beginning to reconnect with God and could finally see themselves becoming saved and free. Just a side note, this also helped the blacks keep hope in their future status in American. I personally think that Amazing Grace was a song about letting go of the past and the bad things that happened and focusing more on the future and the greatness that would be soon to come. They were not bound to the fields and could attempt to, despite oppression, prosper. I think that Dickinson subtly connected her poems to Amazing Grace because the hymn was so well known, very motivational, and extremely popular during the time period. It was important that Dickinson had something in her works that kept her going because she was simply a depressed woman in my opinion. This inspiring song was important to not only people like Dickinson, but also society in general. It left its mark in ways that the author could have never thought possible and still is effecting society even today.