Concetti Chiave
- Emily Dickinson, born in 1830, was part of a Puritan family but chose not to publicly declare her faith, leading to her withdrawal from studies.
- Her poetry was shaped by her readings of the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, and metaphysical poets, alongside Emily Bronte and Robert Browning.
- Despite diverse influences, Dickinson developed a unique poetic style addressing themes such as death, time, fear, and the interplay between God and nature.
- Death fascinated her, prompting her to explore perspectives of both the dying and the observer in her works.
- In her poetry, the "I" often transforms into elements of nature, like a bee or a flower, reflecting her view of the world as a microcosm.
Emily Dickinson (1830/1886)
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 into a Puritan family, but she refuses to declare her faith in public, as was require by the puritan tradition, and then she decided to interrupt her studies and she came back home. She died in 1886. She began a life of isolation and her poetry was influenced by the reading of:- the Bible
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- the metaphysical poets
- but also of Emily Bronte and Robert Browning
However, she combined all these influences in a deeply original way.
Her themes are the eternal problems of life:- death and loss
- time, fear, sorrow, hopelessness
- God and nature (in different ways)
Especially death captured her curiosity, so she wrote from the point of view of the person dying or of a spectator. Finally, in her poems the “I” , that’s the speaking voice, becomes a bee, or a spider o a fly, or a flower…according to a vision of the world where macrocosm is fitted into microscopic structures.
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