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A 6 page paper which examines how Emily Dickinson employed the hymns and sermons that were very much a part of her New England upbringing to construct a truly unique style of poetry that enabled her to express deeply personal thoughts about religion, nature, and death. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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female poet (Erwin). Yet, she remains forever elusive, having spent much of her life in nearly complete seclusion in the small town of Amherst, Massachusetts, traveling little in terms
of geographical distance, but to heaven in her infinite imagination (Erwin). Unlike her female contemporaries, Emily Dickinson received an excellent private education, and even attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
for a year (Erwin). Religion had always been a dominant force in her life, but the inquisitive Miss Dickinson was not merely content to memorize scripture and blindly follow
ritualistic practices. She was a deeply spiritual woman who examined faith like a scientist, rooting out fact from myth, and discarding that which did not hold up to careful
scrutiny. Though not officially a Transcendentalist, Dickinson was profoundly affected by the writings of her countryman, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Erwin). Through her poetry, Emily Dickinson would transform herself
from lonely spinster to powerful prophet, and after briefly seeking out the advice of literary critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson, she would adopt her own completely unique poetic form. The
techniques she religiously employed presented her favorite subjects of religion, nature, and death in a style that was familiar to her, but in a manner that was often regarded as
blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry was straightforward, deceptively simple, and surprisingly unchanging throughout a period of more than twenty years (Morris 26).
With few exceptions, her poems are structured in "hymn stanzas" and the rhyme reflects some "basic hymn rhyme-schemes" of aab, ccb, and xaxa (Morris 26). Perhaps the most definitive
aspect of Dickinsons poetry is "her distinctive dashes" (Doriani 59). She would use them not simply to force the reader to pause from one thought to the next, but
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