Topic > Nature in the works of Emily Dickinson - 1384

Nature is the most beautiful place where anyone can enjoy peace and stability in the human mind. Emily Dickinson is a nature poet who wants the world to know that peace exists in the human world and wants to tell the world. Dickinson's poems are mainly written by "nature", "love" and "death" according to Anna Dunlap in her analysis. Dickinson's sister Lavinia is the one who published Dickinson's work, on her first attempt the editor in charge took a long time. This publisher had Dickinson's job for two years, so Lavinia decided to find another publisher and Loomis Todd is the right person and publisher for this job. Once the perfect publisher was found, Lavinia "her brother's mistress Mable Loomis Todd, responsible for the first editions of The Dickinson Poems" (Dunlap). Many editors of Dickinson's volumes filled with her work were very nitpicky because some of the words she uses were very confusing and failed to understand the meaning she was trying to portray to readers. “From correcting spelling errors and misplaced apostrophes, Johnson leaves Dickinson's original punctuation and capitalization standing” (Hoefel). Johnson is one of the editors, in the 1950s, after Loomis Todd's first revision and after reading Dickinson's work, that's when he decided to publish his work and published it for the first time in 1960. Most of the His work has a nature-related meaning and many of his other titles seemed that way, but there's a twist to them. From "A Close Companion in the Grass" to the metaphysics of "I Died for Beauty - But It Was Scarce" and poems like "Sweet Mountains - Tell Me No Lies -" are not just poems about nature, but transformations, the creation of a religion more centered on the woman who embeds...... in the center of the paper... the reader understands the meaning behind it, in this way" the poem concludes by asking rhetorically whether its listeners now understand the truths produced by both birds than from poetry” (SparkNotes Editors). Besides comparing nature to birds, there is a deeper meaning behind this symbol and that is "art produces soothing and truthful sounds" (SparkNotes editors) just like the soothing sounds of a bird that anyone can enjoy. Works Cited Dunlap, Anna. “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.” Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series (1995): 1-3. Literary Reference Center Plus. Network. November 17, 2013. Hoefel, Roseanne L. "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson." Masterplots, fourth edition (2010): 1-6. Literary reference center Plus. Network. 17 November 2013. SparkNotes editors. "SparkNote on Dickinson's Poetry." SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2002. Network. November 26. 2013.