Making it About Real Life!

   

Emily Dickinson was a great poet. She made her poems about real life, about her real life. Most of her poems are things that she went through and her experiences. According to Neil Scheurich Emily was not religious she was is arguably among the most spiritual of poets inasmuch as her themes of God, love, beauty, and especially death and suffering all depend upon the jarring juxtaposition of embodied human experience and transcendent human significance.( Scheurich) Since Emily's poems where about everyday life and her experiences in  Emily Dickinson's Apostrophe they sate that More than a third of Emily Dickinson's poems appear in letters to known recipients. They were addressed the direct addresses . Here is one of Emily's poems to which I refer she relates to real life,

Just lost, when I was saved!

                                                             Just felt the world go by!

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,

When breath blew back.

And on the other side 

I heard recede the disappointed tide!

Therefore, as One returned, I feel

Odd secrets of the line to tell!

Some Sailor, skirting foreign shores—

Some pale Reporter, from the awful doors

Before the Seal!

Next time, to stay!

Next time, the things to see

By Ear unheard,

Unscrutinized by Eye—

Next time, to tarry.

While the Ages steal—

Slow tramp the Centuries,

And the Cycles wheel!

(160)

The poem came from (Daniels) he says that this poem refers to a near death experience that Emily Dickinson had. well lets end this post here. I hope you can see my point when I say she makes her poems about everyday life and her experiences. 

citations:

Daniels, Patsy J. "THE GAP IN EMILY DICKINSON'S CONSCIOUSNESS: BUDDHISM IN EMILY DICKINSON'S POETRY. (Cover story)." Jackson State University Researcher 21.3 (2007): 1-31. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Scheurich, Neil. "Suffering and Spirituality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." Pastoral Psychology 56.2 (2007): 189-197. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.

Short, Bryan C. "Emily Dickinson's Apostrophe." Women's Studies 31.6 (2002): 769. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.

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Who is Emily Dickinson?

Hi my name is Felicia and throughout high school I always heard how great of a poet Emily Dickinson was. To this day I know nothing about who she is. So for all of you who are interested about learning about her with me come along for the ride we can learn together! We are going to start off with just some bacis facts about her then we will get into some stuff later in the blog. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. In Amherst Massachusetts she is the daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson and had two siblings.   Throughout Emily's life her mother was not emotionally accessible. As a child Emily grew up following her father's religion, but as she got older she argued about what he believed in. Emily's grandfather Samuel Dickinson was one of the founders of Amherst College, and her father was a lawyer that served as the treasure for the college. Since Emily had family involved in the college she got a fine education. Emily  Dickinson was diagnosed in 1886 as having Bright's disease, a kidney dysfunction that resulted in her death in May of that year. After dying Emily's sister found all the poems that Emily had wrote and had them published.