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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH. EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886). Dickonson was born in Amherst,in 1830 and lived there all her life. She went to primary school for four years and then she attended Amherst Acedemy that was found by

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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

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  1. BECAUSE I COULDNOT STOP FOR DEATH EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

  2. Dickonson was born in Amherst,in 1830 and lived there all her life. She went to primary school for four years and then she attended Amherst Acedemy that was found by her grandfather from 1840 to 1847 before spending a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

  3. Hitchcock's,his teacher in Amherst Acedemy, influence on Emily was strong. Similar to many of Hitchcock's lectures, many of Emily's poems describe the changing of the New England seasons. Emily attended Mt. Holyoke Seminary for seven months. The president of the school at the time, Mary Lyon, divided the student body into three groups: "Christians" those who had accepted Christ, "Hopers" those who expressed hope of accepting Christ, and "No-Hopers" of which Emily was one. In her own work she was original and innovative, but she did draw upon her knowledge of the Bible, classical myths, and Shakespeare for allusions and references in her poetry.

  4. She had one brother and one sister. And her father was a lawyer. Her mother Norcoss Dickinson was a quiet woman.

  5. -She was strongly influenced by Puritan religious beliefs,but she didn’t accept the teachings of the Unitarian church attended by her family. -After her school life,during a trip to Philadelphia,she fell in love with a married minister,the Reverend Charles Wadsworth.Her dissappoinment in love may have brought about her subsequent withdrawal from society. So she lived her all life in her room.And she never married. She wrote nearly 3000 poems,and most of them were writen in this room.And only seven of her poems were published in her life time.Her poems had not got any title,and at the same time some of them were not comleted.

  6. We can understand her love for poetry from her saying; ‘If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me,I know that is poetry.If I fell physically as if the top of my head were taken off,I know that’s poetry.These are the only ways I know it.Is there any other way?’ In her poems Dickinson adopts a variety of personas,including a little girl,a queen,a bride,a bridegroom,a wife,a dying woman,a nun,a boy and a bee. While writing poems,she stated some subject especially; The inner world; ‘I felt a funeral in my brain’ ‘There is a certain slant of light’ ‘It was not death,for I stood up’ ‘I felt a cleaving in my mind’

  7. Death; ‘I heard a fly buzz when I died ‘Because I could not stop for death’ ‘Safe in their alabaster chambers’ ‘I died for beauty,but was scarce’ ‘The bustle in a house’ Pain,separation,and ecstasy ‘Pain has an element of blank’ ‘Success is counted sweetest’ ‘After great pain a formal feeling comes’ ‘I measure every grief I meet’ ‘I had been hungry all the years’ ‘My life closed twice before its close’

  8. Love; ‘If you were coming in the fall’ ‘I cannot live with you’ ‘I early took my dog’ ‘Wild nights!Wild nights!’ Nature; ‘A narrow fellow in the grass’ ‘I’ll tell you how the sun rose’ ‘A bird come down the walk’ ‘A light exists in spring’ ‘I like to see it lap the miles’

  9. God and religion; ‘He fumbles at your spirit’ ‘Heaven is what I cannot reach!’ ‘The heart asks pleasure first’ And she was one of the gratest lyric poets of all time. For ex:

  10. We can also see the meter in her poems.for ex: We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labour, and my leisure too,For his civility. We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun. Because I could not stop forDeath,He kindlystoppedforme;Thecarriageheld but justourselvesAndImmortality.

  11. Some critics have used her life to try to explain her poetry,and others have tried to explain her life by referring to her poems,which they assume are autobiographical. For ex:Some changes in her poetry came directly as a result of the war,Unıted States Civil War,espacially she dealt with death.And also dying of her father affected this theme. And she also reflected her beliefs about religion on her poetry.Although she was raised in the Christian tradition Emily came to challenges to these religious viewpoints of her father and the church.

  12. Like many of her contempraries,she rejected the traditional views in life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. The Puritan religion consisted of a "strictness in morality that verges on intolerance“. Puritanism allowed Dickinson to remain grounded in her faith of God, while Transcendentalism permitted her to release herself from limiting conceptions of humanity which enabled her to view herself as an individual with an identity She rejected The Calvinist approach. The Calvinist approach to religion believed that men were inherently sinful and most humans were doomed to hell. There was only a small number who would be saved, and this could only be achieved by the adherent proclaiming his faith in Jesus Christ, as the true saviour. For Emily religious experience was not a simple intellectual statement of belief; it could be more accurately reflected in the beauty of nature, and the experiences of ecstatic joy. .

  13. Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hinduphilosophy. Emerson is noted for his skill in presenting his ideas eloquently and in poetic language. Transcendentalism opposed the popular materialist and Calvinist (see Calvinism) views of life and at the same time voiced a plea for freedom of the individual from artificial restraints. Our poet Emily Dickinson,and a well known poet Walt Whitman were affected by this doctrine.

  14. Both writers were constantly seeking beauty, not only in terms of nature, but also in terms of the individual spirit. Aesthetics is defined by Random House as "having a sense of the beautiful." This can certainly be said of such Transcendental writers as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. . While aesthetics can refer to any sense of beauty, it is often used in terms of literature. How does a piece work aesthetically? How does it look or how is it shaped and/or crafted? The Transcendentalists did not write only for themselves. They wrote for anyone who was and is interested in the notion of transcendence, or the notion of using reason and intellect in order to go beyond the pre-existing limits of the world.

  15. Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. The Romantics underscored the importance of expressive art for the individual and society. In his essay "The Poet" (1844), Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps the most influential writer of the Romantic era, asserts: For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  16. Overall, the major elements of aesthetics that we can attribute to the Transcendentalists include a new definition of the role of the poet and a different perspective of nature. The transcendentalists believed that the poet was representative of everyman or everywoman, but simultaneously different, in that he or she could observe the world, nature in particular, and express its beauty through his or her own verse.

  17. Emily Dickinson died at the age of 55 from Bight’s disease, which is caused by kidney degeneration. Her doctor suggested that the accumulation of stress throughout her life contributed to her premature death.

  18. Dickinson's poetry is challenging because it is radical and original in its rejection of most traditional nineteenth-century themes and techniques. Her poems require active engagement from the reader, because she seems to leave out so much with her elliptical style and remarkable contracting metaphors. But these apparent gaps are filled with meaning if we are sensitive to her use of devices such as personification, allusion, symbolism, and startling syntax and grammar. Since her use of dashes is sometimes puzzling, it helps to read her poems aloud to hear how carefully the words are arrange.

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  20. The Transcendentalist movement was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and a manifestation of the general humanitarian trend of 19th century thought. The movement was based on a fundamental belief in the unity of the world and God. The soul of each individual was thought to be identical with the world -- a microcosm of the world itself. The doctrine of self-reliance and individualism developed through the belief in the identification of the individual soul with God.

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