Author: Emily Dickinson / Year: 1830-1866 /Genre: Poetry Of those poems that celebrate life, a substantial number are about nature, the inhabitants of which Dickinson frequently praises. Dickinson describes her mission to reveal nature in “This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to me— The simple News that Nature told— With tender majesty.” In, “The Bee is not afraid of me,” butterflies, brooks, and breezes are among her dearest friends. She often pays tribute to these friends, nature’s creatures, as in “A fuzzy fellow, without feet”, which catalogs the glorious transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly, or “A narrow Fellow in the Grass”, a multisensory description of a sleek but frightening snake. In “An awful Tempest mashed the air”, nature is personified. In nature is a “liquor never brewed” that inebriates the speaker with joy.
