Psychoanalysis Of Death Complex In Dickinson's Poems

Emily Dickinson is a famous American poet of the 19^th century and her literature status can be compared with Whitman and Allan Poe. In her life, she wrote about 1775 poems and fragments which erected a new milestone in the circle of American poems and have influenced American poets through the generation by the unique style and rich content of her poetry.The whole thesis is composed of five parts. Chapter One briefly introduces the poet Emily Dickinson, the main theme in her poems and why does she choose death as her main theme in her poems. For Dickinson meeting with the problem of death in her life, she expresses her feelings on death in her poems with her special death complex.Chapter Two illustrates Dickinson's sorrow and terror on death from the two aspects of the physiology and mentality because death deprived the human's inherent instinct of the survival in the world. Meanwhile, Dickinson processes a kind of Electra complex and the love for her several intimate male friends in her heart. With the death of her father and intimate friends, Dickinson feels so painful and is filled with the terror of death.Chapter Three describes Dickinson's calm mentality and the probing and description on death in her poems. In order to mitigate her sorrow in her heart, she turns to religion and wants to get some comforts to console herself. However, Dickinson still holds a kind of doubtful attitude towards religion. During a series of struggles and contradictions, she starts to confront death calmly. In nature, she experienced the nature's harmony, the natural cycles of the four seasons and the life of creatures from birth to death. At this moment Dickinson can confront death directly and bravely, even in her poems she eulogized the death. She gradually realized that...