"Dickinson and God - Who was Emily Dickinson's God?"
Title: "Dickinson and God - Who was Emily Dickinson's God?"
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 3019 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Dickinson and God - Who was Emily Dickinson's God?"
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 3019 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dickinson and God
God, to Emily Dickinson, is seen in more than a church or a cathedral. God is seen in her poems in relationship to such themes as nature and the individual existence. These thematic ties are seen in such poems as "It might be lonelier," and "Some keep the Sabbath going to church."
"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" consists of the differences that exist between Dickinson's way of being close to
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create God in her own image, she would have understood better what she believed about him. Instead, she was always wrestling with the quest for who God was and if he even existed at all.
The question as to what Dickinson's view of God is never definitively answered in her poetry. As the reader discovers what Dickinson believes about God, the speaker discovers as well. God remains a mystery in the poems of Emily Dickinson.