DEATH: A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE IN EMILY DICKINSON’S POETRY A RESEARCH IN ENGLISH LITERATURE | ||||
| Faculty of Arts Journal, Arish University | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2023, Page 1-10 PDF (356.2 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Researches | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/faau.2022.390210 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Yasmeen A. Ahmed* ; Hazem I. ElBeek; Hatem S. Salama | ||||
| Dept. English Lang. and Literature, Fac. Arts, Arish Univ., Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Emily Dickinson was an American writer and poet of the 19th century. Emily was born on December 10, 1890; she was raised in Amherst and was against all Victorian laws. Emily chose to live an independent life without marriage and away from the traditions of religion. Although Emily lived in the Victorian era, she refused to follow its strict principles. Emily lived a life of isolation, her isolation due to the many medical problems she faced, and she spent most of her life isolated from her friends, lamenting her disappointment in love. This research deals with the philosophy of death and how the poet Emily Dickinson expresses it using the unusual in her poems; as she likened it to the lover she longs to meet, and sometimes she likened it to the king or a fair democrat among all people or a cruel monster that separates everyone. For her, death has become a mystery that she seeks to explain. Emily also deals with the feeling of death and the reactions of passersby at every funeral, the methods of preparing and getting ready for funeral ceremonies, and the moment the soul leaves the body. Dickinson crystallizes all these events in her poems as if death were an extension of life. Sometimes you see death as a pleasant guest, sometimes as something that threatens life, and sometimes as something inevitable. Emily embodies the philosophy of death in different ways in many poems, as most of her poems were about the philosophy of death in unusual ways. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Death; a controversial issue; emily dickinson’s poetry; english literature | ||||
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