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Nature And Love In Emily Dickinson's Relationship With God

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Emily Dickinson is a well-known poet in American Literature for her poetry about nature and love along with her weird relationship with God. I enjoyed her poems because it made me think about my own life. She was pulled from school when she was a child by her dad and stayed home for a while and started making poetry bundles at a time. She studied mostly nature and the environment when she was in school at the age of 15, knowing how she feels about science she then went to a Seminary for school and a most of the girls were broken up into groups of how they viewed religion. So, it was a tough time a teen trying to figure out if she truly believed in God or not. Which, her values like love or nature is showing strongly in her poems that she wrote, along with some personification that are seen in Apparently with no surprise, Heart! We will forget …show more content…

In Apparently with no surprise, Dickinson talks about how a “happy flower” was minding their own business until frost “beheads” the flower ending up in death. When talking about this scene Dickinson uses personification with these two characters so far. When the frost beheads the flower we all know frost can’t actually behead something and a flower can’t be beheaded. She almost gives the image of a flower being popped off the stem. In the second stanza of this poem, Dickinson mentions the sun “proceeds unmoved” along with “measure off another day”. In these lines Dickinson is referring that after seeing all this so-called murder that happened, the sun isn’t fazed at all and kind of goes on like it’s any other day. In a deeper meaning, I believe Emily was trying to prove the point that many people die in a day and no one notices or thinks about it. People just finish their day just like any other. Which is an example of her main themes of her poems being life oriented and struggles that happen in the

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