Monday, 13 February 2012

• Types of Poems

  The rising sun can be a common symbol for new life, and Dickinson employs it here with the gentle innocence that "a ribbon for a time" conveys. To contrast this stanza, Dickinson writes in the later stanza:

  "But the way the sun set, I know not.

  
  There seemed a purple stile

  
  Which little yellow kids

  
  Were climbing all the while

  Till right after they reached the other aspect

  
  A dominie in gray

  
  Put gently up the evening bars,

  
  Together with led the flock away. " (105)

  The setting sun is used in this situation to symbolize death, the end of life here about this earth. This death is further reinforced yearly stanza when the dominie, and clergyman, "put gently in the evening bars, and led the flock away" (105). The dominie can be a direct parallel to God, leading the new recipients of eternal salvation faraway from earth and into Heaven.

  Another element that can be identified throughout Emily Dickinson's poems is her blend of traditional and unique views on God and eternity. A prime example involving Dickinson's individuality and creativity in neuro-scientific religion is her poem "Some keep the Sabbath going to church". This delightful work explains how instead of attending a Sunday product, Dickinson keeps holy this Sabbath by remaining at home. In one stanza, the girl explains her Sunday just by saying, "God preaches, : a noted clergyman, - and the sermon is never long; so instead of addressing heaven at last, I'm intending all along! " (110). Using simple language and sophisticated humor, Dickinson explains that the word of God does not have to be preached in a chapel, but can be found at any walk of existence. God is portrayed as a personal and loving being, contradictory to the Goodness of fire and brimstone that's often preached during your nineteenth century. She also reveals an inner belief of hers that, contrary to what was believed within her day, going to Heaven is not an arduous task of trying not to sin or being a superb person, but a process. "I'm going all along! " she proclaims confidently and elation, as if she has been told by God that there is a place for her in His kingdom. This idea of eternity is a common recurrence in most of Dickinson's poems. Another piece which illustrates Dickinson's belief in the afterlife reads, "This world is not a conclusion; a follow up stands beyond, invisible, since music, but positive, as sound" (135). There isn't the slightest sense associated with uncertainty found anywhere within these lines. "This world is not really a conclusion" Dickinson instills. There is a life after this environment, and though it may be invisible, like music to your eyes, it is a definite and positive reality, like sound to the ears.

  As in previous poems where Emily Dickinson asserted her belief that there would be indeed an afterlife, another style found all over her poems is that will questioning of the unknown that is included with the afterlife. She displays a child-like curiosity as to the the afterlife will hold and how it's going to compare to the dirt and soil which she has spent her life. This curiosity is made most evident in the woman's poem "What is : 'Paradise'- ", which deciphers:

  "What is - 'Paradise' -

  
  That live there -

  poems about death

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