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organized religion, it can also be said that she also looked beyond the confines of her age to see where religion might lead. Though she was raised in strict Calvinist
times, it is certain that her perspective of the church was uniquely her own and not as Biblically based as the Calvinists would have liked. Given this, then, Emily Dickinson
and the Church, while they agreed on several points, served more to act upon points of contention which extended into her poetry. Not much is known of Emily Dickinson though,
through the writings she left behind and the few correspondences that still survive, we are able to discern the soul behind the words on the page. Most, when considering Emily
Dickinson, picture a reserved, shy, introspective old maid. However, it can be said, that in a type of disciplined seclusion, much as a Tibetan monk, she condensed and purified a
style and type of poetry that moved the form on into the next age. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss, death and about religion. Her views
are typically caught in that wash of good and bad, and while she may bash the religious institutions(and one may assume, her father, who was a very religious man), she
will on the other hand speak endlessly of the pleasure of paradise. It might possibly be that Ms. Dickinson, though influenced by her fathers Calvinistic ways, was also a bit
rebellious against the strict puritanical teachings of the church. An example of this emotional and spiritual limbo is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who
see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a prime example of Dickinsons brutal insight into the world
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