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“Emily Dickinson” - The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson

Seminararbeit, 2009, 14 Seiten

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"Emily Dickinson"

- The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson -

Table of contents

Introduction

2. The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson

2.1

General

characteristics

death

2.2 Reasons for her interest in death

2.3 The relation between time and death

3. Conclusion

References

1. Introduction

This term paper deals with the topic ''The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson'' and is

written behind the background of the seminar "Emily Dickinson".

First of all my ambition will be to bring out the impact of death and why it is so difficult to

define. Further explanations will be given in the paragraph "General characteristics of death".

Death has always been a traditional theme for poetry and therefore it is not surprising that it

was important to Emily Dickinson too. Five or six hundred poems, dealing with death

, are

proof enough for her enormous interest in this theme. Thus, the question arises why death was

so important to her. Reasons for that should be constituted in the paragraph `Reasons for

Emily Dickinson's interest in death'. However she could not finally answer the question that

she had asked herself, because she tried to find the salvation through imagination and in con-

trast death is something that one has to experience at least. Moreover, those who actually ex-

perienced death are not able to communicate anymore with those who live, so humans can not

get any knowledge about death. Therefore one can say that her quest for an answer was

doomed to failure from the very beginning.

One problem, she was confronted with while looking for answer, was the difficult time aspect.

However, time does not just appear as a reason for her failure, but also as a poetic strategy, a

reason for her interest in death and the description of the precise moment of death, which re-

flects in the central paragraph "The relation between time and death". In order to point out the

importance of time in Emily Dickinson's poetry about death, my research question will be

what different aspects of time affected her poetry and were expressed through her writing.

The most difficult thing of the topic will be to relate the time aspects with each other, because

they are settled on different levels. Moreover I am going to analyse the poem "A Clock

stopped " with respect to the time aspect, because it is representative for the importance of

time within her death poetry.

My primary source for the poem I used is "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" in the Franklin

edition. Relevant secondary literature I used is "The death-Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dick-

inson and Christina Rossetti" by Claudia Ottlinger and "Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Stairway

of Surprise" by Charles R. Anderson. Moreover I read Peter Nesteruk's "The many deaths of

Emily Dickinson" and "'Death' in the poetry of Emily Dickinson" by Katharina Ernst.

Finally a conclusion will be drawn in order to summarize my results and to answer my re-

search question.

cf. Nesteruk, Peter. "The many deaths of Emily Dickinson." In: The Emily Dickinson Journal 6.1. (1997): 25.

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Titel:

“Emily Dickinson” - The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson

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Autor:

Miriam Dauben

Jahr:

2009

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Archivnummer:

V145297

ISBN (eBook):

978-3-640-56267-1

ISBN (Buch):

978-3-640-56255-8

DOI:

10.3239/9783640562671

Dateigröße:

230 KB

Sprache:

Englisch

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Miriam Dauben, 2009, “Emily Dickinson” - The death motif in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, München, GRIN Verlag GmbH

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