Perhaps as a result of Emin's training in science, he writes in a simple, straight forward language. Edmond Y. Azadian, in the Afterword to For You on New Year's Day, suggests that Emin freed Armenian poetry from the restrictions that followed Charents' time, the bleak Stalin era, reinvigorating it after a long period during which experimentalism had been discouraged. Martin Robbins suggests, in Ararat Quarterly, that his poetry reflects the tough compression of an engineer's mathematically trained mind, and cites as a representative example his poem Small in which he acknowledges the defenselessness of the Armenian people but affirms their strength. In many of his poems Mount Ararat itself serves as an emblem of the endurance of his people. In Song of Songs he writes: I am an Armenian. ancient as this Biblical Ararat / my feet still wet from the waters of the flood.