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This 71/2 page paper takes a look at three works of Emily Dickinson and explains the poets views on religion. Specific examples are given on Alabaster, and Faith is a Fine Invention. Brief overview of the poet's life discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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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. Dickinsons writings on religion are some of the most enigmatic that still exist today and though it can be assured that they reflect
her particular feelings and views concerning organized religion, it can also be said that she also looked beyond the confines of her age to see where religion might lead. 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),
and then 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 of the orthodox. It would seem, in this poem, that she admonishes both the clergy who are so removed from the lives of the ordinary man that they can
not minister effectively, and to those who are followers of the faith and have effectively removed themselves from the troubled lives of those around them, as if they were now
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