Recurrent Themes in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
- Author Richa Sharma
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- Country : India
- Subject : English
Keywords : Poetry, God, Death, Immortality, Love, Nature
Abstract
American literature had a long period of apprenticeship. The nineteenth century American poetry has been represented by the three great poets- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Emily was one of the great poets of all time, perhaps, the greatest of all American women poets. She wrote about 1800 poems, only seven of which were published during her lifetime, five of them in the Springfield Republican. Though she was not a philosopher, nor even a consistent thinker, she strikingly illuminated hidden recesses in the human soul. Themes and imagery of her poems are borrowed from ordinary life Amherst of her time, her father’s influence, the loss of her near and dear ones, and the ordinary things around her like. Even a cursory glance at her themes reveals an extreme preoccupation with the reality of God, the possibility of faith, the effect of death, the problems of immortality, the nature of the soul, love, passion, pain, social scene and nature.
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