Emily Dickison

Introduction

(Amherst, 1830 - id., 1886) American Poet whose work, by their particular sensitivity, mystery and depth, has been celebrated as one of the largest English-speaking ever. His father, Congressman and treasurer of Amherst College, was a lawyer and austere worship, according to the bourgeois style of New England. Dickinson attended Amherst Academy and at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was a rigid Calvinist education left its mark on his personality and that his character would face skeptical. By Benjamin F. Newton knew very early work of Emerson. He also read Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Beecher Stowe (Eberwein, p. 24).

Very soon decided to withdraw from the world, maintaining contact only with a few friends, including writer Samuel Boswell, who had a long correspondence. At twenty years, Dickinson was aware of his own vocation almost mystical, and at thirty was being away from the world and all, almost monastic. Withdrawn at the family home, engaged in domestic chores and scribbled on pieces of paper (often hidden in the drawers) their notes and verses that after his death, is revealed as one of the most remarkable poetic achievements in Latin nineteenth century. In their isolation only dressed in white ("white my choice" in his own words), a feature expressing ethics and transparency of its poetry (Franklin, p. 78).

Discussion

One of his biographers wrote of his poetic nature: "It was a specialist in the light." His writing can be described as a product of loneliness, withdrawal of any social life, including on the publication of his poems. It said Jorge Luis Borges: "No, to my knowledge, a passionate and lonely life than this woman. Preferred love and dream and have it possibly imagine." Some of his poems reflect the disappointment suffered for love (cards addressed to a man she called "Master", which does not know his real name), and subsequent sublimation and transfer of that love God.

His first poems were conventional, according to the current style of poetry at the time, but as early as 1860, wrote verses experimental, especially with respect to language and prosodic elements (Farr, p. 48). His writing became both precise and melodic, stripped of superfluous words and explorer of new rhythms, sometimes slow and other fast, depending on the timing and intent and not as a rigid pattern, as usual. His poetry became intellectual and meditative, but it would mean a loss of sensitivity.

Currently some scholars emphasize the intellectual complexity, as critics generally had nested lyricism as a supreme value, or more poetic femininity that separated it from other American authors. In his poetry weigh the strangeness and darkness as essential qualities, and the subtle dialectic between images, feelings and concepts. Influence on later poets (such as E. Bishop, A. Rich, W. Stevens and others) by the ability to create a language at once metaphysical and emotional.

Only five of his poems were published, on an anonymous, during the life of the author. Until four years after his death was not published his first poetry collection, then over successive editions, came to rescue about 1,800 poems. It was not until after 1920 that ...