Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lover
Within Emily Dickinson’s writing she portrays a forceful emotional experience with desire and agony over separation and lack of response from and rejection of love by a speculated secret lover whom we may never know. With poems, research, allegations, and claims from researchers who studied her writing, we can put the pieces of the puzzle together and help determine the role of a secret lover. After reading claims from an article called “Beyond the Master Letters,” and poems from a few books helped find and explain who the possible secret lover could be. Although some people speculate Emily Dickinson’s secret lover was a male, numerous speculate that her lover was of the same-sex. Within the poems: “You Love Me …show more content…
Bowles was a publisher of Emily’s poems which only looks as if there relationship was strictly professional and nothing more. According to John F. McDermott, Bowles was a frequent visitor of Emily's and had received numerous letters and poems from her. There are claims that “she was deeply in love with him for several years and never ceased loving him at a distance for the rest of her life.” Although many researchers see different and agree that Emily’s relationship with Samuel was more businesslike and rational. Another claim states that the relationship was relatively traditional and that Emily was only attempting to make him accept her as a poet as well as a person. These claims completely shut down the idea of Samuel Bowles being a candidate for the position of the secret …show more content…
“Susan had received more letters and poems than anyone else over the next four decades.” Gilbert a school teacher by profession was intellectual, well read and socially ambitious. Emily Dickinson’s nickname for Susan within her writing was “Dollie.” In 1856, Susan married Emily's brother Austin and moved into the house next door. Although the intensity of their relationship had declined, Susan remained a reader and critic of Emily’s. From 1858 through 1863 was a time of crisis and change in Dickinson’s turbulent friendship with Susan. As the research shows within her poems written between this time period and poems written after her writing had been very strange and confusing and had been focused fully on “Dollie,” or better known as Susan Gilbert Dickinson. In the poem, “You Love Me You Are Sure,” Emily Dickinson quotes, “ and Dollie-gone!/And no more Dollie-Mark-Quite None” (7,13). Emily seems to be upset by the fact Susan is not within her presence or she is rejecting the emotions. “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments,” portrays this open love she has for this women and how she only wants her to heal these moments, “She feels some ghastly Fright come up/ And stop to look at her” (3-4). Within the poem, “Dying! Dying in The Night,” Emily feels comfortable around Susan and feels as if death will be okay as long
Within Emily Dickinson’s writing she portrays a forceful emotional experience with desire and agony over separation and lack of response from and rejection of love by a speculated secret lover whom we may never know. With poems, research, allegations, and claims from researchers who studied her writing, we can put the pieces of the puzzle together and help determine the role of a secret lover. After reading claims from an article called “Beyond the Master Letters,” and poems from a few books helped find and explain who the possible secret lover could be. Although some people speculate Emily Dickinson’s secret lover was a male, numerous speculate that her lover was of the same-sex. Within the poems: “You Love Me …show more content…
Bowles was a publisher of Emily’s poems which only looks as if there relationship was strictly professional and nothing more. According to John F. McDermott, Bowles was a frequent visitor of Emily's and had received numerous letters and poems from her. There are claims that “she was deeply in love with him for several years and never ceased loving him at a distance for the rest of her life.” Although many researchers see different and agree that Emily’s relationship with Samuel was more businesslike and rational. Another claim states that the relationship was relatively traditional and that Emily was only attempting to make him accept her as a poet as well as a person. These claims completely shut down the idea of Samuel Bowles being a candidate for the position of the secret …show more content…
“Susan had received more letters and poems than anyone else over the next four decades.” Gilbert a school teacher by profession was intellectual, well read and socially ambitious. Emily Dickinson’s nickname for Susan within her writing was “Dollie.” In 1856, Susan married Emily's brother Austin and moved into the house next door. Although the intensity of their relationship had declined, Susan remained a reader and critic of Emily’s. From 1858 through 1863 was a time of crisis and change in Dickinson’s turbulent friendship with Susan. As the research shows within her poems written between this time period and poems written after her writing had been very strange and confusing and had been focused fully on “Dollie,” or better known as Susan Gilbert Dickinson. In the poem, “You Love Me You Are Sure,” Emily Dickinson quotes, “ and Dollie-gone!/And no more Dollie-Mark-Quite None” (7,13). Emily seems to be upset by the fact Susan is not within her presence or she is rejecting the emotions. “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments,” portrays this open love she has for this women and how she only wants her to heal these moments, “She feels some ghastly Fright come up/ And stop to look at her” (3-4). Within the poem, “Dying! Dying in The Night,” Emily feels comfortable around Susan and feels as if death will be okay as long