Emily Dickinson's poems do go to the tune amazing grace. Based on what I know about Emily Dickinson's poems, this is significant because she was a very religious person. Also, though, I think it is significant because there is a line in the song that says "I once was lost, but now I'm found" which I think is very important because I do not really think Emily knew he she was all that much. She was very secluded, not very social, and turned into depression mode when her love ones died. She in a way I think was lost. The only gateway that she had for her life was through her writing. She stayed away from people, but her real feelings came out through her poems and writing. I think that God was really her safe place. She incorporated God or religion into almost all of her poems somehow. I feel like the line "Twas grace that taught my heart to fear," is very important because I think she is talking about her parents. When her father died and then not long after her mother died, she just downhill spiraled in her life. I think that the song kind of reminds her of the troubles and stuff that she has been through, and the deaths that she has experienced, and on top of that, all the seclusion she faced with no social contact. Overall though, she still had her faith and she found ways to incorporate that in everything that she wrote because she had an emotional connection.
I think that Amazing Grace was the main song her poems can be sung to because the words in the song can closely resemble the words in her poem. Her poems have a couple different categories, two of them being life and love. In her life poems, she talks about her life and what she expects in life, and in Amazing Grace, there is always life, even after life is over. In the love category, there are poems about people she admires, and also the downside of love, but in Amazing Grace, there is always love. I think she found little ways to make her poems go to the words of that song because of the meaning the song has and all.
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