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Ralph Waldo Emersons Influence on the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson’s poetry was clearly influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s nature as spirit and poet as prophet philosophy. Examples of Emerson’s Transcendentalism appear again and again throughout Dickinson’s work, yet Dickinson’s imagery is often darker, more complex and pessimistic than Emerson’s light and easy optimism. ... ” Much of Emerson’s poetry and prose extols the beauty of the natural world and links that beauty to spiritual awareness and revelation. Dickinson, too, employs natural images as metaphors for spiritual consciousness. In #328, Dickinson observes a bird in the process of eating a worm and drinking dew from the grass. ... Dickinson’s shift in language from the concrete “bird” and “work” to abstract images of moving water and ascending butterflies transforms the speaker’s experience with nature into a spiritual moment. ... In Dickinson’s poem, nature flies away.
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Title: Ralph Waldo Emersons Influence on the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Words: 702
Rating: None
Pages: 2.8
submitted by: janetreed
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