Archer, Seth. ""I had a Terror": Emily Dickinson's Demon." Southwest Review 94.2 (2009): 255-74. ProQuest. Web. 21 Apr. 2016.
This work by Archer is centered around Dickinson's life whilst directly addressing her depression and suggesting she also may have had a panic disorder. Unlike all my other sources, this source is written more like a biography and gives insight less to her work and more to her life. The piece is written because of Dickinson's admittance to having "a terror" that she could "tell no one about," in one of her letters. The author calls this terror Dickinson's mental illnesses and uses many references to her life to back up this point. Her names Dickinson's terror a panic disorder, and continues to use the letters to Mr. …show more content…
The author talks primarily about Dickinson's failure to ever become a wife, and how writing had become the medication to her "disability," her disabilities being her inability to fit the role of the common women for her time period, her inability to become a wife and mother, and her inability to hold her tongue and reject expressing her inner thoughts. From this, the causes of Dickinson's depression becomes inevitably clear. I will use Davidson's analysis of the novel the article is about, as well as the work of that novelist to tie Dickinson's failure at her role as a woman to pair up with her religious ideals to express how Dickinson's depression manifests in her work. Her mentions of the life she fails to have as well as her morbid talks of Jesus and how she expresses her pain. In the difficulty of Dickinson's life, the writer expresses that poetry became her "anesthesia" and it shows. The author's analysis of where the role of womanhood fits into Dickinson's psyche fits directly into the dynamic of my paper, giving me the ability to use this analysis to fit directly to her …show more content…
The article touches upon Dickinson’s sense of self and relates it directly to her struggle with religion, and uses deep examples from her work to show how that compares to her mental disarray portrayed in her work. The article includes examples of poetry written by Dickinson which show an obvious religious background, such as multiple references to the crucifixion of Jesus—the emotion that Dickinson puts into these pieces of poetry are able to show the serious depression that Dickinson suffered from and how this affected her work. Dickinson’s complicated sense of faith and where she adds this into her work to portray her own personal feelings shows a side of the poet that is very easy to miss. I will use this essay to pair with many other articles, the analysis of Dickinson's sense of God is also tied to her sense of womanhood, which shows as a major reflection of her sadness, and shows of consistently in her work. Dickinson's poetry includes a deep comparison of her own suffering to the suffering of Jesus, which is, I feel, one of the most evident pieces of her mental instability and how she expresses it in her
This work by Archer is centered around Dickinson's life whilst directly addressing her depression and suggesting she also may have had a panic disorder. Unlike all my other sources, this source is written more like a biography and gives insight less to her work and more to her life. The piece is written because of Dickinson's admittance to having "a terror" that she could "tell no one about," in one of her letters. The author calls this terror Dickinson's mental illnesses and uses many references to her life to back up this point. Her names Dickinson's terror a panic disorder, and continues to use the letters to Mr. …show more content…
The author talks primarily about Dickinson's failure to ever become a wife, and how writing had become the medication to her "disability," her disabilities being her inability to fit the role of the common women for her time period, her inability to become a wife and mother, and her inability to hold her tongue and reject expressing her inner thoughts. From this, the causes of Dickinson's depression becomes inevitably clear. I will use Davidson's analysis of the novel the article is about, as well as the work of that novelist to tie Dickinson's failure at her role as a woman to pair up with her religious ideals to express how Dickinson's depression manifests in her work. Her mentions of the life she fails to have as well as her morbid talks of Jesus and how she expresses her pain. In the difficulty of Dickinson's life, the writer expresses that poetry became her "anesthesia" and it shows. The author's analysis of where the role of womanhood fits into Dickinson's psyche fits directly into the dynamic of my paper, giving me the ability to use this analysis to fit directly to her …show more content…
The article touches upon Dickinson’s sense of self and relates it directly to her struggle with religion, and uses deep examples from her work to show how that compares to her mental disarray portrayed in her work. The article includes examples of poetry written by Dickinson which show an obvious religious background, such as multiple references to the crucifixion of Jesus—the emotion that Dickinson puts into these pieces of poetry are able to show the serious depression that Dickinson suffered from and how this affected her work. Dickinson’s complicated sense of faith and where she adds this into her work to portray her own personal feelings shows a side of the poet that is very easy to miss. I will use this essay to pair with many other articles, the analysis of Dickinson's sense of God is also tied to her sense of womanhood, which shows as a major reflection of her sadness, and shows of consistently in her work. Dickinson's poetry includes a deep comparison of her own suffering to the suffering of Jesus, which is, I feel, one of the most evident pieces of her mental instability and how she expresses it in her