Imagine yourself surrounded amongst an opulent, and ever so peaceful setting of nature; feeling one with God and his creation. Using this way of finding your peaceful consolation, especially amongst nature, was exactly how Emily Dickinson described her faith. As being part of the shared beliefs, I found her expressions of the faith often understandable, and possibly even similar to my own. Although she holds a pessimistic view towards practiced religions, Dickinson continues to express her belief in God. Through her poems “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers” & “Some keep the Sabbath”, she reveals her type of sanctuary like explained before. These two poems touch upon the concept of religion, one viewing the current state of human life, and the
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Within the two first lines of the stanza, it is understood that she’d rather spend her day of the Sabbath at home rather than in a Church. She feels as if she already has everything she needs in her own place. She has a Bobolink (blackbird) as a chorister and her backyard orchard as the atmosphere for her church. This quickly gives away that she feels more comfortable in the setting of her own home, rather than having to go to church to seek God. Continuing on to the next stanza, she remarks to another aspect of going to church by saying: “Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice- I, just wear my Wings-” (5-6). This sentence appears odd at first, however, she’s most likely just saying that she is able to wear whatever she feels comfortable in rather than dressing up in white vestments for church. Additionally, instead of having a bell going off, she finds her bells through the bird chirping from within her yard. As she comes to the conclusion, she reveals that God is her preacher, whom sermons are never too long. Moreover, she doesn’t need to wait until death to reach Heaven, mostly because she is already living in it through the beauty surrounding her. Like Whitman, she expresses the idea that all beauty given from God already surrounds the human being and doesn’t needed to be waited for. They don’t need to find God through a …show more content…
Those, who are the members of the resurrection, are waiting to rise to Heaven with Christ. She basically points out that those who are dead, waiting for the resurrection, are lacking the experience of everything that lies above them. For in the next stanza, she goes on to say that years go by as these hopeful ones in the ground wait to be risen. Then stating that nothing more matters now, that “Diadems-drop-” and “And Doges-surrender_”. This perhaps meaning that all forms of materialism were then lost and that nothing is significant to them anymore. That they are now only “Soundless as Dots, On a Disc of Snow”. Basically describing that those who are dead will eventually become one in Heaven, being equal to each other like the dots on a disc of
Within the two first lines of the stanza, it is understood that she’d rather spend her day of the Sabbath at home rather than in a Church. She feels as if she already has everything she needs in her own place. She has a Bobolink (blackbird) as a chorister and her backyard orchard as the atmosphere for her church. This quickly gives away that she feels more comfortable in the setting of her own home, rather than having to go to church to seek God. Continuing on to the next stanza, she remarks to another aspect of going to church by saying: “Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice- I, just wear my Wings-” (5-6). This sentence appears odd at first, however, she’s most likely just saying that she is able to wear whatever she feels comfortable in rather than dressing up in white vestments for church. Additionally, instead of having a bell going off, she finds her bells through the bird chirping from within her yard. As she comes to the conclusion, she reveals that God is her preacher, whom sermons are never too long. Moreover, she doesn’t need to wait until death to reach Heaven, mostly because she is already living in it through the beauty surrounding her. Like Whitman, she expresses the idea that all beauty given from God already surrounds the human being and doesn’t needed to be waited for. They don’t need to find God through a …show more content…
Those, who are the members of the resurrection, are waiting to rise to Heaven with Christ. She basically points out that those who are dead, waiting for the resurrection, are lacking the experience of everything that lies above them. For in the next stanza, she goes on to say that years go by as these hopeful ones in the ground wait to be risen. Then stating that nothing more matters now, that “Diadems-drop-” and “And Doges-surrender_”. This perhaps meaning that all forms of materialism were then lost and that nothing is significant to them anymore. That they are now only “Soundless as Dots, On a Disc of Snow”. Basically describing that those who are dead will eventually become one in Heaven, being equal to each other like the dots on a disc of