Poe vs. Dickinson Poets can be so similar and yet so different at the same time. Edger Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson are two great American poets that are this way. Edger Allen Poe’s works reflected his eerie lifestyle and personality. His poetry most often reflected loneliness and fear. Edger Allen Poe’s poems usually took place in a dark or creepy setting. In “The Raven” has starts the poem with “Once upon a …showed first 75 words of 495 total…

…showed last 75 words of 495 total…and amazing imagery to tell their poems. They both wrote about things we don’t understand or comprehend such as death. In both their lives, they gained neither fame nor fortune. They were also disconnected from society and its normal points of view. These two great American authors were similar elements while being completely different with rhyme schemes. Do all great authors have something in common with each other both in life and in writing?