Emily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and adopted the new transcendental outlook. Massachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left the people. After all of the "Great Awakenings" and religious revivals the people of New England began to question the old ways. What used to be the focal point of all lives was now under speculation and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. People like Emerson and Thoreau believed that answers lie in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, "Whoso would be a [hu]man, must be a non-conformist." Emily!
Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Em
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolike for a chorister, With an orchard for a dome. When Lord passed away Emily's health condition which has been hindered since childhood worsened. Emily also went against the Church which was an extreme rarity of the time. It can be inferred that morning, something so common place and taken for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so called minds. Similar to many other that shared her beliefs she too did not think that a set religion was the way for salvation. She may not have believed in God but He did have a profound impact throughout her childhood. They were never romantically involved but their relationship was apparently so profound that Emily's feelings for him she sealed herself from the outside world. From all the jails the boys and girls Ecstatically leap,- Beloved, only afternoon That prison doesn't keep. Life according to Emily is!
brief and the people living out their lives have little control. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death.
She maintained a correspondence with Rev. She was a rarity not only because of her poetry but because she was one of the first female pioneers into the field of poetry. Has it feet like water-lilies? Has it feathers like a bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? (Will there really be a morning?) Further on in the poem she goes on to ask if the scholar or "some wise man from the skies" knows where to find morning. According to this poem Emily clearly states that nature is her source of guidance and she has little need for the Church as an institution. In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling.
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