Concetti Chiave
- Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 into a Puritan family but chose not to publicly declare her faith, defying tradition.
- She lived a life of isolation, drawing poetic inspiration from the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, metaphysical poets, Emily Bronte, and Robert Browning.
- Dickinson's poetry explores eternal themes like death, loss, time, fear, sorrow, hopelessness, as well as God and nature.
- Her fascination with death led her to write from perspectives of both the dying and observers.
- Her poetic voice often transforms into elements of nature, like bees or flowers, reflecting a vision of macrocosm within microscopic structures.
Emily Dickinson's early life
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
- 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.
Unique poetic perspective
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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