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A 5 page paper which examines how nature is portrayed in “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” (#303), “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes,” (#341), “This is My Letter to the World” (#441), “I Had Been Hungry” (#579), and “They Shut Me Up in Prose” (#613). No additional sources are used.
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TGemnat.rtf Emily Dickinsons Poetic Nature , For - July 2001 -- properly!
Because nearly all of Emily Dickinsons poems were published after her death, she remains very much an enigmatic figure in American literature.
All that is known of this reclusive spinster is that she lived her entire life in New England, and that she maintained a lifelong love affair with nature, presumably
kindled in the breathtaking Amherst countryside. Nature was pure and untainted by an often intrusive civilization. For Dickinson, nature was not only the physical root of all forms
of life, but was also the spiritual and philosophical foundation, without which human beings could not exist. When Dickinson no longer found solace in the Calvinist teachings of her
youth, she gravitated toward the Transcendentalist movement pioneered by New England authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Transcendentalists believed that the
mind was not a prisoner of the senses, and that it could be nurtured most freely in a natural environment. In her poems, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society,"
"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose," Dickinson not only celebrates her
reverence for nature, but also offers readers a rare glimpse into the inner self of one of Americas most elusive poets. In poem
#303, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," there is little in the way of natural imagery, but it provides considerable insight into Dickinsons relationship with nature. In it, she
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