The Embodiment Of The Self-Consciousness In Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Emily Dickinson was a great American poet. She wrote altogether 1,775 poems of which only seven appeared in print in her life. Emily's works have exerted considerable influence on modern poetry. Her frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhyme, broken metre, and unconventional metaphors, has contributed to her reputation as one of the most innovative poets of 19^th century American literature.The thesis focuses on the analysis of Emily Dickinson's poetry, with respect to the embodiment of the self-consciousness. The thesis offers an overall comment on Emily Dickinson's life and writing style, presents and analyzes the background of the forming process of the self-consciousness, expatiates the embodiment of the self-consciousness in Emily Dickinson's poems—both in the writing style and the subjects, and concludes that the self-consciousness can be clearly found embodied in the creation of the poems, and the analysis of which facilitates the understanding of the meaning of her poems from a new angle.