Emily Dickinson Ambiguity
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson lived a reclusive life away from society in her parents’ house where she used to garden and write poems and letters. In her lifetime, only tenth poems were anonymously published. Dickinson was a woman that didn’t desire to be known. In one of her poems “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” she states that “Don’t tell! They’d advertise- you know! (2)”. This poem emphasizes the fact that for society, Dickinson is nobody and that she preferred it that way. She preferred to conserved her individuality that to be advertise and loose her identity. When Dickinson died in 1886, her collection of poems was found by her sister and later published. Thomas H. Jonhson in his book “Final Harvest Emily Dickinson”, writes: She thereby steadily participated in the issues of existing. “More than Love and Death? (xiii)”. Jonhson means that Dickinson poems are about these topics, she persistently likes to express her ambiguity and questioning of these topics.
Dickinson was obsessed with death and immortality topics. She had a talent for ambiguity and questioning life after death. It is not hard to understand why she had all these thoughts. When Dickinson was a kid, she attended a Seminar for girls, but on some point in her life, she told her parents that she does not want to go back. I …show more content…
In the next stanza mother nature’s children are sleeping so the scenario change to the night. “She turns as long away (18)” this suggest that mother nature has other duties but she will always illuminate her children with her lamps that are stars. In the final stanza, Nature is putting her golding finger on her lip this is suggesting that she is introducing the silence a quality of the
Dickinson was obsessed with death and immortality topics. She had a talent for ambiguity and questioning life after death. It is not hard to understand why she had all these thoughts. When Dickinson was a kid, she attended a Seminar for girls, but on some point in her life, she told her parents that she does not want to go back. I …show more content…
In the next stanza mother nature’s children are sleeping so the scenario change to the night. “She turns as long away (18)” this suggest that mother nature has other duties but she will always illuminate her children with her lamps that are stars. In the final stanza, Nature is putting her golding finger on her lip this is suggesting that she is introducing the silence a quality of the