Emily Dickinsons View On Religion

We are in a world that strives for conformity. People who are “different” are socially outcasted. To be a conformist means to be similar to everyone else. I personally don’t want to conform to society. I am afraid that if I’m not the same as everyone else, I may be outcasted. It’s a difficult battle. Either being true to myself or conforming to society. American Individualism means to have the will power to choose to be an individualist or a conformist and it also means to be your own self no matter the consequences.

Emily Dickinson was one of the best American poets, but she is very famous for being a secluded writer. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1846 in Amherst, Massachusetts and she died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 55 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her isolation from the outside world still confuses literary critics and readers of her poetry and letters. There are many theories developed over time about her seclusion. Some people believe her secluded way of life was her own choice but she was very close to her family. Emily Dickinson lived in a happy home and went to a school during her life. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830 and lived there all her life most of her life. An introduction into Emily Dickinson’s poetry themes, and discussion about the isolation in her life, and discussion about the isolation in her poetry will be examined in the paper.

Emily Dickinson’s works are studied by various audiences from high school students to college scholars. Even without striving to hope that her works would impact so many generations, Dickinson has influenced many generations of poets and plays a major role in the development of American Literature. Dickinson did not become famous for her works until after her death in 1886. Not only is Emily Dickinson’s work important to the study of American Literature, most of her writings were composed during the tumultuous Civil War era. The study of her work is important to historians a snap shot into the mindset of American citizens during a violent time in our countries history.

Sleep deprivation, vexation, feeling exasperated and a bit depressed; unfortunately, I feel every one of those today. Plans for Wednesday have changed for several reasons, each one respectively, due to either mum, Alexis, and myself; mine being a large monetary setback at USC this morning. In feelings and changes, I will work off the hours as I can this week, and try to have it finished by April. I would hate for a situation to arise, or yet another situation to arise rather, to come up, and still be jerking-off with this. With the blue-shifted deadline for those hours becoming bluer still, may be best to bite, swallow, and shit the bitter bullet and be done with it. Oh dear, proper British lady has crashed.

She, growing up in a religious family, determined that religion was not the pathway for her and she would instead be the only influence on her life (Emily, no pag.). To the rest of New England, God was loving, caring, and a Father; however, her poetry reveals that to her, He was a mystical figure in the sky who oscillated back and forth from loving to harsh. Dickinson’s poetry often mocks the Bible, God, prayer, and church attendance. Her poetry’s is commonly irreverent, calling the Bible “an antique Volume – Written by faded Men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres - ” (F1577). Dickinson repeatedly mocks God calling Him “Burglar! Banker!” and sarcastically “Father!” (F39). In a short, three-lined poem, Dickinson jeers at the traditional, Christian phrase “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost—Amen.” Dickinson instead worships nature “In the name of the Bee – And of the Butterfly – And of the Breeze – Amen!” (F23). Although subtle, it reveals that she knows enough about religious ways to parody it in a satirical fashion. Dickinson again belittles the effectiveness and importance of prayer. “Of Course – I prayed – And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird – had stamped her foot – And cried ‘Give Me’ - ” (F581). To “remain true to herself,” Dickinson belittled the importance of faithful church attendance ( Emily, no pag.). “Some keep the Sabbath going to

The last two lines of the poem are a timid reflection on what might happen “Had I the Art to stun myself/ With Bolts—of Melody!” (23-24). The idea that creation is a power that can get loose and injure even the creator illuminates why in this poem the artist positions herself firmly as a mere spectator. In these first two poems, we meet a Dickinson who is not entirely familiar to us—even though we are accustomed to her strong desire for privacy, these poems can be startling in the way they reveal the intensity of Dickinson’s fears. She is, after all, shrinking from what is dearest to her—nature, one of her favorite subjects, becomes a harsh judge, and poetry, her favored medium of communication, can suddenly render the reader “impotent” and the writer “stun[ned]” (19, 23). The extremity of her positions in shrinking from the small and beautiful things she loves creates the sense that this is just the beginning of a journey by leaving so much room for change.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is one of the best poets in America. She is known for her uncommon way of writing poetry. There was a great deal of problems going on in her life. She spent mostly her entire life living in her home and only left unless she needed to do so. Unlike other poets, she did not have any order to her writings. She just wrote what she was feeling. Her work was anonymously published and later became known after her death.

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” is both a memory and an account of faith. Dickinson was raised in a time where Religion and faith were at the forefront of everyone’s mind. The churches of the time were trying hard to meld traditional religious practices with new theological and scientific ideals. As her family and friends began to join the Church and push for Emily to pursue membership, she resisted and ultimately never joined. However in Emily’s works you can see the struggles she faces with her faith and God. This poem is no different. “Because I could not stop for Death” is in fact proof that even though Dickinson challenged God and religious tone changes throughout her works, she did have faith in some form of immortality.

Emily Dickinson: The Individual and God Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets of the 19th century wrote remarkable and sophisticated works of literature about the unimportance of God towards the individual. Poems 215 (What is-”Paradise”-) and poem 437 (Prayer is the Little Implement) portray this inessentiality of God and how He is irrelevant to man. During the 19th century, Emily Dickinson rejects the social belief in religion and therefore challenges God through her works. Both poems questions the existence of God, her disconnection of religion, and ultimately the unimportance of God in life.

Death is a natural occurrence that happens to every living organism. Though, death is a destined occurrence many people have many different point of views on death. In Alan Seeger’s poem, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” he further elaborates on death in his perspective as a soldier in battle and in “Because I could not stop for death” Emily Dickinson explains her poem in a perspective of a white puratan women. In the poems, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger and “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, both explain to readers what death means to them and their point of view on death is and the implications it may have on them. Overall, these poems use diction, repetition, personification, and even rhyme to relate

In the scholarship of nineteenth century American literature, the focal point is most often the rise of romanticism and transcendentalism. While both movements are well deserving of the scholarly attention they have received, one of their most definitive effects is often sidelined: the popularization of queer literature. The uncertainty and openness of nineteenth century literary movements allowed for LGBTQ+ themes to be entwined in various works with little to no suspicion or negative response from the general populace. One of the most recognizable representatives of the rise of queer American literature is Emily Dickinson, who has long been believed to be lesbian or bisexual. What little is known about her appears to support this conclusion; the poet was never married, and composed frequent amorous letters to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, her sister-in-law (Norton 1661). While the sexuality of Dickinson is indeterminate, her poems contain definitively queer content. An excellent example of this can be found in Poem 194, or “Title divine, is mine,” in which Emily Dickinson utilizes parallelistic imagery and tonal confusion to subtly portray feminine homoeroticism.

Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest female poets to ever live. She left us with many poems that show us her secluded world and life. Like other major nineteenth-century authors, Dickinson used her hesitations between doubt and faith to make amazing works of literature that will remain popular for many years to come. The style of her first writings was mainly conventional, but after years and years of practice she began to leave some room for experiments. Often written the same way that hymns are, her poems dealt with not only issues of death, faith and immortality, but with nature, domesticity, and the strengths and limitations of language. Emily’s faith is clearly seen in her poems 155, 342, and 508.

For centuries, a question that has been posed to many people is: what makes a “good individual”? This certain inquiry is often left to be decided by an individual’s beliefs, and has been debated on by multiple groups with contrasting views, especially groups such as Enlightenment thinkers, Romantic thinkers, and Transcendentalist thinkers. Each group has its own definition of how it feels an individual should act and behave in society. Enlightenment thinking postulates in the fact that one should have the ability to believe and trust in reason, and that hard work is essential in life. Contrarily, Romantic thinking suggests that human emotion is more trustworthy compared to reason and to be unmoved in life is key. Transcendentalist thinkers

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, into an influential family in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father helped found Amherst College, where Emily later attended between 1840 and 1846. She never married and died in the house where she was born on May 15, 1886.

The theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Faith’ is a fine invention” is that there are times for optimistic ideals and there are times for evidence. The theme of this poem can be found through analysis of the poet’s analogy and tone.