Jane Doe’s Poetry Reflecting Life in Her Time Jane Doe was an American writer known for her poetry. She wrote about many subjects including religion, nature, and family. …………………………………………………………She had a creative way of thinking about life. Many of her poems were letters to people, even though she was not exactly a social person. Jane Doe’s literature intrigues people to this day because she had such a unique way of looking at the ordinary aspects of life.
First, Jane Doe’s intriguing background led to her uniqueness as a writer. In “The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson,” Kauffman says, Dickinson “was born in 1830 to a wealthy family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was raised under the Calvinism religion. Having grown up in a religious home, …show more content…
Her subject might be as simple as a housewife as Robert Forman discusses. “Doe repeatedly shifts the housewife’s burden to the reader through the imperatives “try” and “lift.” Ironically, the domestic burden of the housewife’s duties becomes the weight of the coffin and the dead weight of handling the corpse itself” (Forman 1). Robert Forman also says, “Doe's poems often focus on a proleptic view of the death experience; that is, they anticipate death yet present a living narrator to interpret the nearly experienced event.” Jane Doe wrote many poems about death. Joan Burbick says, “Doe talks a lot about death. Her poem “Because I could not stop for death” talks about how desire brings on death. The cost of realizing desire is self annihilation. Desire is a fatal emotion for many Doe’s speakers” (Burbick 1). Some of her poems use herself as the subject such as “This is my letter to the World/That never wrote to me,” a poem about her life as a recluse or “Behind me – dips eternity - /Before me – Immortality/ Myself – the term between,” a poem referring to her work as a poet (Blackwood 360). John Holmes makes the connection between Jane Doe and the American Civil War. “ The years of the American Civil War (1861-65) were ones of great productivity for Doe, and the war intruded into her poetry more than collections indicate” (Holmes 2). Nature is he other major subject in Doe’s poetry. …show more content…
Unfortunately, she was a psychopath who spent her time stalking other writers. Her mental state probably made her a better poet because she spent so much time alone with her thoughts. Although she refused to publish her work, it is a shame she did not enjoy the success of her work. Unfortunately, Doe committed suicide in her family home in Banger, Maine on July 5th, 1967 on her birthday. Her family buried her in their family burial plot in Banger. Despite her untimely death, Jane Doe’s unique style of writing and her interesting perspective on ordinary life makes her poems relevant to this day, and the mysterious quality to her life makes her more interesting to
First, Jane Doe’s intriguing background led to her uniqueness as a writer. In “The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson,” Kauffman says, Dickinson “was born in 1830 to a wealthy family in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was raised under the Calvinism religion. Having grown up in a religious home, …show more content…
Her subject might be as simple as a housewife as Robert Forman discusses. “Doe repeatedly shifts the housewife’s burden to the reader through the imperatives “try” and “lift.” Ironically, the domestic burden of the housewife’s duties becomes the weight of the coffin and the dead weight of handling the corpse itself” (Forman 1). Robert Forman also says, “Doe's poems often focus on a proleptic view of the death experience; that is, they anticipate death yet present a living narrator to interpret the nearly experienced event.” Jane Doe wrote many poems about death. Joan Burbick says, “Doe talks a lot about death. Her poem “Because I could not stop for death” talks about how desire brings on death. The cost of realizing desire is self annihilation. Desire is a fatal emotion for many Doe’s speakers” (Burbick 1). Some of her poems use herself as the subject such as “This is my letter to the World/That never wrote to me,” a poem about her life as a recluse or “Behind me – dips eternity - /Before me – Immortality/ Myself – the term between,” a poem referring to her work as a poet (Blackwood 360). John Holmes makes the connection between Jane Doe and the American Civil War. “ The years of the American Civil War (1861-65) were ones of great productivity for Doe, and the war intruded into her poetry more than collections indicate” (Holmes 2). Nature is he other major subject in Doe’s poetry. …show more content…
Unfortunately, she was a psychopath who spent her time stalking other writers. Her mental state probably made her a better poet because she spent so much time alone with her thoughts. Although she refused to publish her work, it is a shame she did not enjoy the success of her work. Unfortunately, Doe committed suicide in her family home in Banger, Maine on July 5th, 1967 on her birthday. Her family buried her in their family burial plot in Banger. Despite her untimely death, Jane Doe’s unique style of writing and her interesting perspective on ordinary life makes her poems relevant to this day, and the mysterious quality to her life makes her more interesting to