“Miss Dickinson's own conception of God is that of a Supreme Power, and apparently her most intimate relations with God are those in which death brings her the poignant realization of His existence.”
Humiliata discusses here Dickinson’s viewpoint on God, but she points out that throughout her poems Dickinson’s definition of a God varies because she changed her mind so frequently. Although, all her descriptions of Him relate to deaths of her loved ones that she have had to overcome, including her father and nephew. This will help my essay by bringing up her loved ones who passed, and how these events helped her in the creative aspect of writing.
Humiliata 149
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This will help my essay because Dickinson was very concerned about death, so she wrote a hundred poems about it so it would seem like less of a scary topic.
Bennett 84
“When in need of healing, it was not to the consolations of religion that Emily Dickinson turned but to the consolations of nature.”
Dickinson’s view of nature was different than many Romantic writers because she thought that nature was the best way to heal and really experience the world around us. This will help my essay because it supports a claim that she is a transcendentalist by her relating to nature, and she feels like she is independent.
Bennett 116
“While Dickinson’s nature poetry is directly toward representations of the material world, it is also true that she employed metaphors drawn from nature to illustrate the inner life.”
When Dickinson discusses nature she compares it to things in the material world, but she also compares it to things in her inner life. This will help my essay by knowing when she talks about nature she is most likely referring to an impactful moment in her