Literary Appreciation & Analysis Of Emily Dickenson's Personality And Poems

AbstractEmily Dickenson, a poCt Who kePt isolated but devoted to herpersonal ideal cause -- poetic creation, wrotC l,775 poems andfragInents Which erected a new milestone in the circle of American poemsand have influenced American poets bough the generations by thewhque style and rich conen of her poecyDickenson has a gift for poetry Her poems have such a wide range ofthemes, from natUr, religion, love, tO the immorta1ity of human soul. Andthus, her major ideas and personalities that are deePly rooted in the cultUreand society of her time, can be readily available to us in all her poems andletters.Her poems are often difficult because of the unusual comPrssion,unconventional grammap the strange diction and strained figures ofSPeech, the often overgeneralized symbolism and allegory Furthermore,her condensed style and diverse rhythms make the reading her workextremely difficult.Ths thesis is mainly to eva1uate the allistic style and ideologicalmerits in Dickenson's poems.ChaPter One strCsses the influence of Dickenson's life eXPerencesuPon her poetic creaton.ChaPter TWo il1ustrates Dickenson's poetic methods and her majorideas reflected from her poems.ChaPter Thre reveals the mie stature of Emily Dickenson in historyand the sighficance of her poems.She is now strong enough as a writer in the litemp history totrallsform the cultufa view of her time to the present. We may undersbodcultUre someWhat differenly because of her...