A Study Of Religious Faith In Emily Dickinson And Her Poetry

ABSTRACT Emily Dickinson has all the elements to suggest she is in the tradition of a mystic. For Dickinson, birds, bees, and butterflies - nature itself - symbolise transcendence. These beautiful creatures aspire to a heavenly abode and that is where her soul aspires to be. The exploration of the thesis, therefore, takes the path of finding heaven on earth - to show that Dickinson discovers God in Nature. She learns to detach, to abnegate, from all earthly concepts and mateiral objects, even bodily form. Lost love, the emotional injury results in her seclusion and the emergence of her own world which helps her break away from the false suffering and worrying of the outside world. Dickinson is looking for a simplicity of ideals. The present moment is eternity, there is no tomorrow or yesterday or even today. For the mystic there is only the here and now. She does find God in nature - through the loss of self. What Emily Dickinson represents is suffering in its good and bad form - through love, anger, and hate. She is in search for the perfect world. She accomplishes this by finding perfection within nature itself - and in this search she captures glimpse of the finest points of humanity. .3...