Emily Dickinson英语本科毕业论文自己写的(2)

who taught me immorality.2‖

Emily‘s next teacher was Charles Wadsworth, a married, middle aged minister who provided her with intellectual challenge and contact with the outside world. It appears that she felt affection for him that he could not return, and when he moved to San Francisco, in 1862 she removed herself from society even more than she had before. Wadsworth may have been the model for the love in her poems, though it is just as likely that the literary figure is purely imaginary.

Actually, her good education and two very important teachers gave Emily Dickinson a lot of help on her poetry writing. And that is why she wrote a lot of poems about love, religion. Part II The style of Emily Dickinson‘s poems

Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have not titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines or part of it.

In her poetry there is no a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. The form of her poetry is more or less like that of the hymns in community irregular.

Dickinson‘s irregular or sometimes inverted sentence structure also confuses readers. However, her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.

Her poems are usually short, rarely more than twenty lines, and many of them are centered on a single image or symbol and focused on one subject matter. Due to her deliberate seclusion, her poems tend to be very personal and meditative. Unconventional metaphors are among her greatest accomplishment. She uses not only simple images to indicate universal things but also expresses her personal ideas by significant images. She frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and personification to vivify some abstract ideas. Her dramatic monologues convey rich complexities of human emotion –elation and depression, faith and doubt, hope and despair. Dickinson‘s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness; and her limited private world never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination

Part III

In the following paragraph, some of the poem will be used to indicate the poetess‘ insight of death, love nature and religion. Death

Emily Dickinson wrote many poems concerned with death. During her life time, Emily Dickinson wrote about 500 poetry of death, which consisted of one third of all poetry. Compared with other writers contemporary, she is the poetess who wrote death most. Her poems

concern death, ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. She looked at death from the point of view of both the living and the dying. She even imagined her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknown, such as I heard a Fly buzz－when I died 3,Because I could not stop for death4 and I felt a funeral in my brain. I heard a Fly buzz－when I died5 is one of Emily Dickinson‘s most well-known poem about death. This poem is a description of the moment of death I heard a Fly buzz－when I died－ The stillness in the Room Was like the stillness in the Air－ Between the Heaven of storm－

The eyes around －had wrung them dry－ And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset－when the King Be witnessed－in the room－

I willed my keepsakes－signed away what portion of me be Assignable－and then it was There interposed a Fly－

With Blue --- uncertain stumbling Buzz－ Between the light－and me－ And the Windows failed－and then I could not see to see－

In the poem, the poetess uses her unique forms, especially unusual pauses to express her original ideal－Death is awesome and unpredictable. In I heard a fly buzz－when I died, the pauses have the function of both emphasis and suspension. It seems to tell the readers that it is during the poetess‘s dying that she heard a fly, the ―Room‖ and ―Air‖ are capitalized, and here ―Room‖ indicates of mortuary and ―Air‖ the weather. The atmosphere in the room and out of room is both quiet, just like the quietness before the storm. In the first stanza there are four dashes to make the effect of tranquility of the contemporary situation and people‘s sorrow. Through this the poetess tells us indirectly the scene upon death. At last moment, the poetess supposes to see ―God‖. ―For that last onset－when the King , Be witnessed－in the Room‖. This eagerness is emphasized by using dashes to connect the words, and seemingly leaves the question to the reader ―If I can really see God when I died‖, while the last sentence ―I could not see to see－‖ seems to answer the reader I could see nothing either the ―Fly‖ nor ―God‖. This sentence ends with a dash to show the poetess‘s doubt on the existence of God－ If

people can really go up to the heaven after death, but on one can anticipate it. In this poem Emily Dickinson‘s vision, imagination and feeling of calmness when she is facing the death are rightly and gracefully passed to the readers.

Because I could not stop for Death－is one of her most profound attempts to image some sort of being after death develops the deceptively metaphor of death as a gentleman taking a lady for a drive. He and his passenger are clearly presented but perhaps the carriage also holds ―immorality‖. In a few compact lines the drive rapidly becomes one‘s passage through a lifetime. Although it ends unambiguously at the grave there is still a bare hint of some inconceivable but possible continuing consciousness. The who poem－less than 130 words altogether-reads: Because I could not stop for Death－ He kindly stopped for me－

The carriage held but just ourselves－ And Immortality.

We slowly drove－He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too; For his civility－

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