They also point to the word "luxury," which represents passionate indulgence. (Joly, 2)
Personal life Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a notable, educated family of attorneys. (Wider)
Dickinson left a large number of poems addressed to Dickinson's "lover for all eternity," who is often referred to as Master. (Jones, p
Recent scholars have posited that Dickinson saw the mind and spirit as tangible, places and that for much of her life she lived within them. (Juhasz, p
More precisely, "Bradstreet's refined verse conforms to and perfects many of the standard poetic conventions used by men and is a subtle assertion of women's capabilities in the literary sphere" (Schlotterbeck, 2002) Therefore, she was one of the first women to write and the first to be published in 1650. Similarly, the next century, Phillis Whatley was the first African-American woman to ever publish a book at the end of the 18th century (Gates, ?)
In this sense, Anne Bradstreet was educated in the spirit of the first feminist poetry and determined a wave of writing that reflected the first attempts of women writings. More precisely, "Bradstreet's refined verse conforms to and perfects many of the standard poetic conventions used by men and is a subtle assertion of women's capabilities in the literary sphere" (Schlotterbeck, 2002) Therefore, she was one of the first women to write and the first to be published in 1650
Either due to being married or not being romantically inclined towards her. A well-known clergyman of the time Emily Dickinson had such an intensity about her that it terrified most people and kept them at bay (Bingham
The poet portrays death as a terror to be feared and avoided, a trick on humanity played by God, a welcome relief, and a way to heaven. Poem XXXV begins "I heard a fly buzz when I died;" (Dickinson, p
All of the Dickinson men were attorneys with strong political ambitions, and as a result the Dickinson home was the site for the annual Amherst College commencement receptions. It is evident through letters that Dickinson was raised for a life of political activity and public service; she learned the nuances of political dialogue and met some of the most influential law makers of her generation (Crumbley, npg)
Before Emily Dickinson turned seventeen, she was a relatively devout Christian and attended Church every Sunday. After her seventeenth birthday, "after a series of revival meetings at Mount Holyoke Seminary, Emily Dickinson found that she must refuse to become a professing Christian" (Bloom 11)
Experts state that the outside world held little interest for her. On September 7, 1835, Dickinson began school at West Center District School (Kirk xv)
Interestingly, at the time of her death in 1886, only ten of Dickinson's poems had been published and those were all done anonymously. Newspaper journalist Peter Parker wrote, "She would often send her friends bunches of flowers with a verse attached; they valued the posy more than the poetry" (Parker 1)
It is easy to see these feelings of loneliness and despair in the words she writes. She was born on December 10, 1830, the second of three children (Wolff 3)
Romanticism influenced American politics, philosophy and art. This movement appealed to the radical spirit of America including those aiming to free from the stern religious traditions (Dickinson and Thomas 40-176)
In addition, Dickinson aims at finding a place where God marks his domain. Her poems reflect theological thinking characterized by extra cultural, physical, practical and virtually mystical (Monte 21-51)
These religious poems revealed a commitment to the particular religious attitudes. In addition, they revealed a process of ever shifting devotions, unwilling to devote to any of them revealing a religious uncertainty (Shawcross 71-90)
However, she confronts Jesus and asks where his "House" is, in response; Jesus tells her it is in Paradise. This poem does not point out the ambivalence about paradise (Flibbert 129-137)
Her poem "In Vain" is a poem about love. She says "and were you saved, and I condemned to be where you were not, that self were hell to me" (Dickinson 29)
Though at first glance "I heard a Fly buzz" appears to have no explicit examination of a corpse, in fact the narrator's own body is the corpse, even if it does not fully become that until after the conclusion of the poem. Thus, the fly, with its "uncertain stumbling Buzz," can be initially read as a literal fly buzzing around the speaker's soon-to-be-corpse, the last image the speaker sees before "the Windows failed" and death overwhelms her (Dickinson lines 13, 15)
The fly serves as a reminder of the banality of death as well as the importance of the meaning bestowed by human perception. According to Eric Wilson, in his essay "Dickinson's Chemistry of Death," "Dickinson, avatar of Janus, takes a double stance […] she approves the power of the scientific method for exploring the corpse while undercutting the validity of scientific conclusions about the enigmas of dying" (Wilson 28)