I. Introduction
Emily. Dickinson (1830-1886) is one of the greatest poetesses in the history of American. All her life, she remained recluse. While Emily .Dickinson lived a more intense and passionate life than was thought by the neighbors and the acquaintances who saw her as eccentric maiden lady, the “moth” of Amherst, dressed only in white, who flitted almost ghostlike through her house and garden. Not even those closest to her 本
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Ⅱ. Brief Introduction to Emily. Dickinson
A. Life of Emily .Dickinson
Emily. Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts, on December 10th 1830, and died there some fifty-five years later on May 15th 1886. With the exception of a few visits to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C, she spent her whole life in Amherst. She never married, and she lived in comfortable dependence on her well-to-do father and his estate, though she did more than her share of household chores while creating a large body of poems and letters.
Little is known of Emily .Dickinson’s earliest years. She spent four years at primary school and then attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, somewhat irregularly because of poor health. She wrote imaginatively for school publications but none of these writings survive. Her intense letters to friends and classmates show a variety of tones, especially in her reluctance to embrace Christ and join the church and in her anticipation and fears about prospect of a married life. The world, as she understood the idea, was dearer to her than the renunciation which conversion seemed to require, and quite possibly she sensed something false or soft-mined in the professions of others.
In a period of regions living condition, without benefits of modern medicine, life spans were much shorter than ours, and Dickinson suffered the early deaths of many acquaintances and dear friends. She witnessed several deaths, doubtlessly impressed and shocked by the Puritan doctrine that looked for signs of election本
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B. Emily .Dickinson’ Ideas
Emily .Dickinson’s major ideas are readily available to us in poems and letters, but on first reading, they form complicated and often contradictory patterns. This is not surprising; her world was insular and small, and she was highly introspective. In addition, her work has it’s roots in the culture and society of her times, but though these can be explored extensively and many parallels can be established between her statements and various literary and religion documents, the poems create more mutual illumination than does Emily .Dickinson’s background itself.
The tradition of classifying Dickinson’s poems into thematic grouping for analysis and comparison has been unjustly criticized. As we have remarked, it can contribute to simplification and distortion, but it is more illuminating than approaching the poems by categories of technique or periods
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