Abstract

The paper opens up the question for the reader as why Emily Dickenson was not more widely published in her lifetime. The critics claimed that Emily Dickinson's poetry does not seemed mature enough or polished in terms of proving to be a conventional romantic verse which was being published in the leading periodicals of the day. It is a fact that Emily Dickinson is being acknowledged as one of the original and most important poets by the critics, she is praised as one of the emerging poets from the American literary tradition. The feminist scholars analyzed her works of poetry and letters for the purpose of gaining some kind of insight into how Emily Dickinson responds to the values of middle nineteenth century gender-restrictive patriarchal society. It is a fact that after considering her life struggle and going through her entire work that was contributed to the English literature, now the Modern critics needs to recognize that the poetic style of Dickinson was actually a decades ahead of the time they were published and also it should be acclaimed

Why Emily Dickinson was not more widely published in her lifetime

Introduction

Emily Dickinson is being acknowledged as one of the original and most important poets by the critics, she is praised as one of the emerging poets from the American literary tradition. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a poet, whose passionate poetry has placed its author in the small pantheon of founding American poet's today share with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson spent most of her life confined in a room in the house of her father in Amherst, and except five poems (three of them published without her signature and one without the author's knowledge); her enormous work remained unpublished and hidden until after her death.

According to Paul (2000), it has been still a question mark as why the poet in her life time never received such critical acclaim. Moreover, some of the editors that actually appraised the work of Dickinson faulted her use of language as too much simple, plain and unsentimental for suiting the contemporary tastes. Furthermore, the critics claimed that Emily Dickinson's poetry does not seemed mature enough or polished in terms of proving to be a conventional romantic verse which was being published in the leading periodicals of the day. (Paul, pp 12-45).

Thesis statement

The paper discuss about the fact as why the claims and appraisal for Emily Dickinson's works was not being acknowledged during her life time.

Discussion and Analysis

Emily Dickinson had the extraordinary ability to convey in her poetry her experience of reality. For her, there were both surfaces and evasive underlying meanings. Unlike her contemporaries, she refused to provide definite readings of life's surfaces, and her ambivalent, contradictory, and at times baffling poems reveal this rebellion against doctrinaire certainty, this willingness to reside in indeterminacy (Wicher, Pp. 41-50).

It is a fact that after considering her life struggle and going through her entire work that was contributed ...