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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