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Main Hoon
Professor John. Tyde
Eng 1B
04 April, 2007
Despair
Emily Dickinson was born in a traditional home in England, in the mid 1800's. The author states, "Dickinson was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Mass" (Byers). Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts; a small farming town that had one college. There, she was raised in a strict Calvinist household while receiving most of her education at a boarding school that followed the American Puritanical tradition. Her father along with his family had converted to Christianity, but Dickinson alone decided to rebel against that and reject the church. Emily did not like the idea of Calvinism, which is the idea of, "a theological system and an approach to the Christian life that emphasizes God's sovereignty in all things" (Wikipedia.org). Dickinson chose to leave her home and her only contact with her friends and family was through letters. Her life experiences help the reader understand the dramatic and poetic lines in her writing. One should realize that in the 1800's women were not treated equally like men. One can predict that, writing was a challenge in the conditions that Dickinson lived under. Even educated citizens in this particular era believed that, women lack the essential qualities to the creation of poetry. When commenting on how Dickinson was mocked, Elsa Greene an author states, "Even Higginson lowed friends to make sport of Emily Dickinson as his "partially-cracked poetess." Even after much criticism from her friends and family, Dickinson did not abort her writing. Her writing strongly reflects her life experiences and tends to focus on religion, despair and death.
Dickinson's writing tends to reflect ambivalence toward Christianity, and the effect on one's self. She wrote about religion with enthusiasm at times, but then her excited ness to write about religion trickled down. Though Dickinson never accepted the church as an entity, she never...
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