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A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Emily Dickinson’s stance toward nature. Dickinson has moments of epiphany when she indicates a oneness with nature, but it is aggression, not passive receptivity that dominates these moments as she “wrests form nature the power to create her poems,” enduring “struggle and acute pain” when necessary (Diehl 36). This examination of Dickinson’s poetry substantiates this position, which is that Dickinson, on the whole, perceived nature as personified, rather than in the abstract, that is, she saw the natural world as Nature, with a capital “N,” an adversary and a mystery to be assailed, rather than embraced. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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world that holds the promise of decay and death" (Diehl 36). Dickinson categorically refused to submit to Natures "arbitrary, time-bound cycles" and rejected the blending of the poets ego with
nature that was pictured in the poetry of Wordsworth (Diehl 36). Dickinson has moments of epiphany when she indicates a oneness with nature, but it is aggression, not passive receptivity
that dominates these moments as she "wrests form nature the power to create her poems," enduring "struggle and acute pain" when necessary (Diehl 36). The following examination of Dickinsons poetry
substantiates this position, which is that Dickinson, on the whole, perceived nature as personified, rather than in the abstract, that is, she saw the natural world as Nature, with a
capital "N," an adversary and a mystery to be assailed, rather than embraced. Dickinsons adversarial stance toward Nature, and particularly towards death as a part of the natural order, can
be seen in her poem "I died for Beauty-but was scarce." In this poem, Dickinson pictures a conversation between a narrator, who died "For Beauty" (line 6), and a man
who identifies himself as dying "for Truth) (line 7). In both cases, the poet conceptualizes their deaths in terms of failure, as the narrator is questioned as to why she
"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss had reached our lips--/And covered up-our names-" (lines
11-12). In other words, death, a part of Nature, Dickinsons adversary, has robbed her and her companion are pictured as dying and their art disappearing into obscurity, which effectively silences
them as Moss, a symbol of nature, symbolically covers up their names. This offers a concrete rationale for why Dickinson perceives Nature in adversarial terms, as she quite accurately fears
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