Identity – Gender identity
Relationships between men and women
Often Direct address is used
Natural imagery – Like other Romantic poets
Emotions - emotional pain
Deals with loss/absence/ lack of
Never married or had children and was isolated
Shy, introvert, cut herself off
Religion
Feminism
Religion
Feminism
Death
Thinking about what will happen after death
Should we be afraid of death?
Why are people afraid of death?
She had a serious illness – maybe she felt death
was close
Exploring her worries about death through
poetry, helping her process/deal with it
High mortality rate – death was all around her
What happens in the memory of those left behind
after death
She didn’t think her poems would be remembered
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