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Selected "transcendental" poems of Dickinson.

Her extraordinary poetic imagination acts Self-analysis, self-discipline, and self-critiqueĪre the tools of her search. Instead, hers is the lonely searchįor the truth she dismisses conventional faith (" Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-") as the easiest Here is that Emily Dickinson does not take a role of a prophet, redeemerĪnd teacher of the (American) world. transcendentalism's, influence in these poems but the profound difference Poetic technique that she uses involves making abstract concrete, whichĬreates a striking imagery like that of a hand of the wind combing theĮmerson's, i.e. Emilyĭickinson questions absolutes and her argumentation is multisided. Sense of life, immortality, God, faith, place of man in the universe. Universal truths and investigate the circumstances of the human condition: Seem to be transcendental, yet not quite. Of thought or philosophy, she was simply herself.

Dickinson never tied herself to a specific school

Mind, one could say that in her lifetime she was neither a leader Keeping Dickinson's famous reclusivity in True to herself and being an individual at all costs, as opposed to conforming The world to that concern." (174) Ironically, for wishing only toīe herself, Dickinson was following a transcendental ideal she was being According to Roy Harvey Pearce, "she is simplyĪnd starkly concerned with being herself and accommodating her view of Later she expressed admiration of the writing of Thoreau she may have been referring to him in " 'Twas fighting for his Life he was-," (Fr1230), according to her biographer Alfred Habegger ( My Wars Are Laid Away in Books).ĭickinson kept her writing, as well as her writerly intentions,Īs simple as possible. In 1850 her friend Benjamin Newton gave her Emerson's first collection of Poems to her delight, a volume including " The Sphinx," " The Problem," " Give All to Love," " Merlin I" and "Merlin II," and " The Humblebee," all poems whose style and subject seem to resonate in her poetry. Into the category of the Transcendentalists, she was well-regardedīy Emerson and she read his work thoughtfully ( Pearceġ74). Transcendental Legacy in Literature Emily DickinsonĮmily Dickinson is one of the most widely