LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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A Biographical Study of Emily Dickinson’s Preoccupation with Death

V. Vasanthi, Ph.D.

Introduction

The anthology of a poet is often supplemented with the biographical details of the poet in order to throw a thorough insight into the philosophy of the poems. Sometimes it becomes necessary that we get to know the personal life of the author for a better understanding of that force which had provided impetus for the creation. Every individual has a unique perception and the poems invariably reflect the predominant thought of the author. The study of this peculiarity is inextricably bound with the study of the author’s biography.

Emily Dickinson’s Preoccupation

For example, Wordsworth was highly preoccupied with nature and Ted Hughes wrote about animals. Similarly, Emily Dickinson’s preoccupation with death as revealed through her poems can be reasoned out by analysing her biography closely.

This paper recalls her biography and works and analyses the reasons for her preoccupation. This study maintains that there were three different factors which brought about the thought of death to the poet. They are: nature, religion and love. Each of these has been discussed in this research paper. When news of death is heard, the listeners pay head for a while, grieve, empathise and resign into indifference for such is the nature of death that can hardly be reasoned for or felt about. There are many writers like T.S. Eliot who had been preoccupied as Emily Dickinson was. This obsession was her merit and demerit.

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