Reading note (1)Emily Dickinson
星期一 一月 28, 2008 10:08 pm
Emily Dickinson
American women of Achievement
As age of 19-year-old, Emily Dickinson’s doubts about religion persisted, and she often expressed her torment in verse:
I shall know why—when Time is over—
And I have ceased to wonder why—
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky—
He will tell me what “Peter” promised
And I –for wonder at his woe—
I shall forget the drop of Anguish
That scalds me now – that scalds me Now!
The book “Emily Dickinson (American women of Achievement)” is a good tool to understand Emily’s life and her poems.
Emily was keen to life and nature no matter how much she remained isolated from the world. She passed her days by looking inward and concentrated her energies and intellect on writing. Her poems were intensely emotional. They reflected her struggle of life and religion. She wrote “Faith is such a fine invention” and confessed her decision in letters,
“The shore is safer, Abiah, But I love to buffet the sea… I love the danger”
For better or worse, she had taken an independent stand on the issue of faith.
“It is not now too late, so my friends tell me, so my offended conscience whispers, but it is hard for me to give up the world.”
It took her a few years to settle down her thoughts and struggle between. So many of her poems sway between faith and questions.
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