Emily Dicknisons and the 19th Century Poetry

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Emily Dickinson and the 19th century poetry

        A notable decrees in the number of studies that deal with the ninetieth century literature as time passes by.  This has encouraged thirsty scholars to search for information containing the culture and literature of the current period. As it is the case in  present years, studying and focusing on individual writers and on specific issues such as human being and domesticity, how American writers are influenced by journalists and also the relationships that exist between traditional notions of Geography  and abolition (Michael Burdurk  2014). Essays that provoke thoughts concentrate on topics such as cemetery landscapes, urban park movement , nationalism and religion, gender issues and the popularity of the panoramas. Pe Edgah Allan ha s critical attention on film and music and television Due to this influential nature, several articles discuss about his contribution in the field of literature and poetry, forensic psychology and fashion (Michael Burdurk  2014). In this paper therefore, the nature of poetry in the 19th c will critically assessed with a case study of Emily Dickinson who was an American poet who spent most of her life in seclusion with the outside world but also spent a good time to read wide and write a lot of poems.

        Emily Dickinson's poetry together with some other poets such as Walt Whitman and Poe  are viewed as the founder and the core perpetrators on the nineteenth century American literature (Michael Burdurk  2014). According to William Carlos, Poe's poems were among the first and that they depict a clear picture of what American literacy is about, Mc Gann also demonstrates how Poe influenced modern and post modern Literature and art (Michael Burdurk  2014).  Though Christine Gerhardt's in his book, A Palace for Humility argues that Dickinson and Whitman partially reinvented the environmental poets in a context that viewed environmental culture as a  way of seeing a barrier that can be defeated and brings one towards an understanding at the end of its own right. (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016).

        Dickinson and the 19th C American culture is a title obtained from Michelle's Kohler's book " Miles of the Stare" which was adopted from Dickinson's poem that she has known a heaven like a tent. This served as a sample model that Kohler views as an ocean of influential images to her transparent eyeballs whereby, her image will signal a perfect visual connection between the subject and its world of view (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016). In the poem, her viewers are left with a stare that a revelation from heaven will not accept.

        In Kholer's chapter about Dickinson's poems, she explores her use of metaphor not as Emerson would have described it but she explores it as a link that exists between the mind and the world and as some kind of substitute that marks a confrontation with loss, transience in the external world or even loss (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016). Dickinson's poems such as " i watched the Moon Around the House" puts more emphasis on the efforts of using metaphors to record an object in the real world and only ends as an acknowledgment the moon signifies an emblem that human beings are not (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016).

        A group of poems that reflects on the reports about the civil wars, folds a skeptical vision into an equaly revision of a nationalist perspective just the same as Whitman's uses nature in his poem " when lilacs last in the Door yard mloom'd" where war is treated as a part of grand narative. (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016). On the other hand,  Dickinson\s skepticism views about theories on nationalists is not is not rhetoric, however, is just a statement of futility. As other poems acknowledge the weaknesses that exist berween human beings and their perspectives on different issues, they depict metaphors as tools of epistemology that can be used to sustain the physical presence perception (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016). She further explains her ideas in her poem "I Take – No less tan skies" by talking about the weather. Wind, clouds, sun and tides are natural phenomenon and agents of the spirits through feelings to the soul she argues that this phenomenon are a continuation of the creation and thus they used poetry as a medium in delivering the force of creation. Then wind and weather are used as figures in poetry, they destabilize the normal understanding of a place and its identity and in this case, they cause a negotiation between the terrestrial life and the distance  (Amanda Gailey and Dan Manheim 2016).