Sunday, January 24, 2010
Jeong #1
Emily Dickinson's poems go through many different phases as they go on. In the beginning her literary works seem to parallel to her state in life. In poem 49 she feels poor. I believe she is emotionally lacking love or companion ship in this phase of her life. As poem 130 illustrates that she is looking into her past and longing to be freed. As the poems start to mature it seems as if she is giving her life to the lord. At first she is hesitant to fully devote herself to God. In poem 214 she is in a state of euphoria off the air she breathes. In that state of euphoria she mentions that she will be happy until the end of days referring to the "Sun." As she writes on she starts to write more and more about the Lord. Poem 249 she is rowing in Eden and following her heart for the blind search for love. With the Lord being mentioned in the poems her poems move towards a gloomy morose stage lingering on the idea of death. She was one of the first "emos" of the United States. She writes of her mentality being in a horrid stage. She feels a funeral in the brain, and all hell is let loose in the infinite labyrinth of enigma. Her mind is puzzling and dark. Emily Dickinson through the poems that I have read, is like an artist. In the beginning of her career (hobby for her) she is writing like other poets of the time. As her writing matures it achieves a style of her own. The slant-rhymes gave Dickinson's works a unique genuine style to her works of her time period making it stand out from others.
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I like what you have to say about Emily Dickinson and the reference to her devotion to the lord. That was exactly what I thought she was trying to convey in her poems. Now I can see how she is hesitant to give all of herself to the lord because she is so lonely and "emotionally lacking love or companionship" and that could be the main reason why she is so hesitant to give herself to the lord. Seeing as how she spent the majority of her life alone and without someone to love, it makes since that she sounds so dark in her poems.
ReplyDeleteI think u are right about her Emily Dickison .She is on a up and down thing. Like she real do not know what she realy want to do in her life. As soon as i see were see is coming from i will be better off understading her. Most off her story is about what she think of somebody else, and what she feel about herself.You said that shes a lonely and emotioall lacking love or companionship.I think peopel need to ask thereself why she is like that
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jeong. I think that she is in her right state of mind... for herself. But as she gets older she does not seem to fall into society's web of "normal." It is almost like if she were to Emily Dickinson in today's time, she would be more recognized- simply because of her uniqueness of her writings. But I do think she was hesitant about being with God, so to speak. Her poems send to follow her through that time of her life, almost like a journal.
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