Research Atwood, Plath and Dickinson and figure out which poet you are most like. Your similarities could be based on personality traits, like-minded issues you care about, or on themes that arise in one poet’s work that really speak to you. Blog about what you feel is common between you and the poet you have chosen:
Well, to briefly describe what I researched and analyzed about each figures, all three poets write poems in women's perspective. Even though authors do not directly assert that their speakers in their poems are women, as a reader's perspective, I hear from a woman's voice and can tell by use of diction and phrases they embed in their poem. Most of Margaret Atwood's poems have some kind of relation with feminist idea. Other two American poets rather write about death and destitution mostly in woman's perspective.
Hence, as of male perspective, it is hard to find similarities based on like-minded issues that the poets write about. I neither believe in any feminist ideas nor have any tragic incidents that motivate me to write about. Even though I have hardships that I am barely trudging through, compared to Emily Dickinson or Plath's hardships, they seem nothing. However, I have one similarity with Emily Dickinson's depiction of 'death'. Dickinson's poems like "Because I could not Stop for Death," "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," and "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," draw the theme of death as inevitable stage of life and a fresh start of eternal life. She portrays 'death' in a dead person's voice in all three poems and indirectly or directly talks about life after death. The similarity I have in common with her idea is that I, too, believe in life after death. Although I am not really a strict believer in Christianity, I believe in the Holy Spirit and Jesus who will guide me to the heaven when I die. Since Dickinson was a Christian, she would have believed in the same thing.
