The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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This paper examines in depth the works of Emily Dickinson, a nineteenth century poet and recluse. It includes a discussion of the biographical details in Emily's life and how her life experiences shaped her writings with such themes as nature, loss and love and her poetic techniques, language and form. Eleven of her poems are reviewed, including "Because I Could not Stop for Death," "I Know Some Lonely Houses off the Road," "A Bird Came Down the Walk," and "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain."

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"Her shifting attitude towards immortality is paralleled by her ambivalence about the existence of a god. Although she continued to search, Dickinson's poems reveal that she never rests comfortably in belief and certainty. She struggles for proof of god and eternal life in her interpretations of experience and in her participation in the natural world. In the end, however, the skeptic and the believer simultaneously characterize Dickinson's stance."

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