Dickinson’s Attitude Towards Life and Love from Her Poems
Attitude to life is a very comprehensive term which encompasses a great many aspects of life. Life consists of not a few elements but almost an infinite variety of things. However a poet usually does have some attitude towards life which in his/her case may mean he/she highlights some particular aspects of life not too many of course. In the case of Emily Dickinson we find that she has highlighted some important aspects of life – friendship, society, pain and suffering and growth in life and the most potent factor of life that is love.
Dickinson has
distinctive views on pain, suffering and growth as an integral part of life.
Suffering plays a major role in her poems about death and immortality just as
death appears in her poems on suffering. Her poems on the themes of suffering
and growth belong to three groups: (1) deprivation as a cause of suffering (2)
suffering leading to disintegration and (3) suffering as bringing compensatory
rewards of spiritual growth.
Some of her poems
reflect her belief that suffering is necessary for creativity. Poems on love
and on nature suggest that suffering will lead to a fulfillment of love or that
the fatality which one feels in nature elevates one and sharpens his
sensibility. ‘ Death –blow is a life blow to some’ implies that every apparent
evil has a corresponding good and good is never brought to birth without evil.
Dickinson considered
the subject of love from a philosophical point of view although her love poetry
had its source in her own tension is indicated here a tension between her
desire to live and her helplessness before death.
Thus we find Dickinson
has explored different aspects of death. She is indeed an eminent poet of
death.
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