is a classic Romantic idea Romantic poets believed that nature is the source of happiness for the soul She moves through endless summer days and enjoys the natural world She even imagines Seraphs angels and Saints watching her joy This shows a powerful imagination which is also a Romantic quality Romantic poets loved to escape into nature and Dickinson uses nature to show freedom joy and innocence nbsp Death Soul and Eternity Romantic poets often explored big mysteries like death and the soul In Because I Could Not Stop for Death Dickinson treats Death as a polite gentleman Death takes her on a peaceful carriage ride She writes nbsp Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me nbsp This calm emotional treatment of death is very Romantic nbsp On their journey she passes the school the fields Gazing Grain and the setting sun This journey becomes the journey of life itself We can see life s beginning and the end The school where the children are playing stands for the early ages of childhood The green fields stand for the vitality of the youth The setting sun represents the end of life Dickinson says the horses are going towards Eternity This shows her Romantic interest in the afterlife The mood is quiet slow and thoughtful exactly like the deeper emotions Romantic poets loved to explore nbsp Psychological Exploration and Inner Pain Even though Dickinson has Romantic elements she is also deeply modern Because she goes inside the human mind In I Felt a Funeral in My Brain written in she shows the breaking of the mind in a very unusual way She imagines her thoughts as mourners walking inside her head nbsp I felt a Funeral in my Brain And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading nbsp The Drum beating feels like mental pressure The Plank in Reason breaks and she falls down into confusion It means she has lost her sense of reason nbsp This poem is not about nature or beauty It is about psychological suffering and mental collapse These are modern themes Modern poets often wrote about the mind fear anxiety and the feeling of being lost in the world Dickinson shows all of this long before modern poetry officially began nbsp Modern Style Short Lines Dashes Strange Images Dickinson s technique is also modern She uses unusual punctuation random capital letters and sudden images For example in Because I Could Not Stop for Death she writes short calm lines that hide big meanings For example nbsp Since then 'tis Centuries and yet Feels shorter than the Day nbsp Here Dickinson is talking about big ideas like the afterlife and eternity This technique breaks traditional rules Romantic poets often wrote smooth long lines Dickinson uses sharp quick surprising lines This is exactly what modern poets later started to do nbsp A Bridge Between Romanticism and Modernism So Dickinson is both Romantic and Modern She writes about nature the soul eternity deep emotions and imagination These are Romantic themes But she also writes about mental struggle and inner loneliness These are modern themes Her style also mixes both worlds simple but powerful emotional but also mysterious natural but also psychological nbsp In fine Emily Dickinson cannot be placed fully in one group She has the heart of a Romantic poet but she also has the voice and style of a modern poet We clearly see that Dickinson stands between two ages She connects the Romantic world with the coming Modern world It makes her one of the most unique poets in English literature