Emily Dickinson describes her standards for judging poetry in the following quotation: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any way?" Her intense poems celebrate nature, describe love, and personify death. She addresses the great mystery of the universe and of life, and she wrote these passionate verses from the solitary viewpoint of her house and garden. She, herself, is a mystery because she lived a life of solitude and self-exile, closed off from the world and from interaction with other people. It is as if she lived outside of life in order to observe her surroundings and have a unique, unclouded view of life she might not have otherwise had. What emotions does her poetry produce in you? Do you find her poetry to be dark and moody, or light and optimistic? Does knowledge of her personal life elucidate the ideas in her poetry? Can we see evidence of Romanticism or Transcendentalism, or perhaps Puritanism and Anti-Transcendentalism in her poetry?
4 comments:
I think her work is based on Romantism. Her poems mainly talks about nature, describe love, and death. She separated herself mostly until it was time to go into her garden. Mr. Farley am i somewhat correct?
i agree with kk. i think emily dickinson's poems involve the many items that romanticism connects. i think that she is not puritan because she tells her way through what she thinks through nature and death and love, objects of romanticism.
Romantic writers had examined human nature apart from society, isolated and absorbed by the imagination and inner reflection, concerned with ultimate questions about the universe.
to add to what i wrote
i think she might be romantic but im still unsure......any help mr. farley?
kk, you are definitely on the right track, you can easily make an argument for that. Now you just have to choose 3 poems that discuss these issues and compare them to other Romantic works.
Brit, you are also correct in your assumption. Go with it!
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