Abstract
As a poet with varied writing styles and extra-ordinary talent, Emily Dickinson occupied a very prestigious position in the field of American literature. Her poetry deals with a unique and large number of thematic expressions. This paper aims at introducing the unfolded, underlying and amazing thematic expressions of Emily Dickinson’s notable poetry. To unveil these themes of death, love, nature, immortality, pain and suffering from her widely recognized poetry, secondary source of data has been used. In this study, an effort also has been made to trace, examine, and explore the various themes with outstanding style of presentation of her poetry and their impact on readers and critics. Many researchers and critics have spent their great exertion to trace out these themes and they became successful in this regard. It is hoped that this study will also be a part in this line of contribution and serve the purpose for which it is designed.
Highlights
This paper aims at introducing the unfolded, underlying and amazing thematic expressions of Emily Dickinson’s notable poetry
Dickinson is regarded as a praise-worthy American figure who has already earned a place in American Literature in the early twentieth century
Death remains a mystery, an unending source of to her searching question, and her “only playmate was anxiety but she overcomes the tension created by universal- poetry” and this poetry proceeded experimentally to sing of izing her dilemma about death, identifying it with the pro- love and nature and tried to formulate a philosophy of love
Summary
Dickinson is regarded as a praise-worthy American figure who has already earned a place in American Literature in the early twentieth century In one respect, she stands in sharp contrast to her great contemporaries like Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. She stands in sharp contrast to her great contemporaries like Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau Her interests were wide and varied which encompass transcendental, meditative, romantic, metaphysical and mystical themes. As a result, her thinking was suffused with abnormally heightened spiritual and mental awareness which she struggled to contain within the limits of her creative outpouring. Her thinking was suffused with abnormally heightened spiritual and mental awareness which she struggled to contain within the limits of her creative outpouring The result was both positive and negative. Except a few number of her poems being susceptible to easy interpretation while an ambiguity falls over the rest
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