Emily Dickinson Religion
It is known that a mass amount of Emily Dickinson’s poetry casts a theme of death. The online Emily Dickinson’s museum article states,
“The subject of death, including her own death, occurs throughout Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. Although some find the preoccupation morbid, hers was not an unusual mindset to a time and place where religious attention focused on being prepared to die and where people died of illness and accident more readily than they do today.” “Some Keep the Sabbath by going to church” takes a little twist away from her usual death theme. Yes, it still has a serious tone as it deals with a serious topic, but one can notice the joy and happiness that secretes from the speaker when discussing her form of worship to …show more content…
However to fully understand her creative writings one has to take a closer look at it. Take a look at her form and her tone in order to fully appreciate the amazing way she ties words together. Her tone is light, joyous and happy as she shows that she is not part of the “Some” who follow the strict rulings of the church. Oh no she is free to worship God in his main habitat, nature. Her rhyme scheme is much alike to that of a hymnal which further indicates the light mood of the speaker despite the seriousness of the …show more content…
Dickinson uses imagery, sound and raw emotion of the speaker to pull the readers interest and further point out that diligent church attendance does not ensure your salvation. The view of a beautiful orchard, the sounds of sextons singing and the joy the speaker experiences with God and nature puts the odds in her favor. No doubt Dickinson has accomplished what she desired with this poem, to prove the key to heaven’s gate.
Emily Dickinson Closes of with, “So instead of getting to Heaven, at last –/ I’m going, all along.” (Franklin 236). The affiliation of getting into heaven is that, one has to first die to enter, along with dedicating the life and love to God. However, Emily is saying that she is having her heaven on earth. She practices religion and strengthens her relationship with God where she goes. It does have to be restricted to the church only. Being with the creator and his creations in nature is a slice of heaven to her and she has no doubt that she will have a spot in the kingdom of God forever and
“The subject of death, including her own death, occurs throughout Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. Although some find the preoccupation morbid, hers was not an unusual mindset to a time and place where religious attention focused on being prepared to die and where people died of illness and accident more readily than they do today.” “Some Keep the Sabbath by going to church” takes a little twist away from her usual death theme. Yes, it still has a serious tone as it deals with a serious topic, but one can notice the joy and happiness that secretes from the speaker when discussing her form of worship to …show more content…
However to fully understand her creative writings one has to take a closer look at it. Take a look at her form and her tone in order to fully appreciate the amazing way she ties words together. Her tone is light, joyous and happy as she shows that she is not part of the “Some” who follow the strict rulings of the church. Oh no she is free to worship God in his main habitat, nature. Her rhyme scheme is much alike to that of a hymnal which further indicates the light mood of the speaker despite the seriousness of the …show more content…
Dickinson uses imagery, sound and raw emotion of the speaker to pull the readers interest and further point out that diligent church attendance does not ensure your salvation. The view of a beautiful orchard, the sounds of sextons singing and the joy the speaker experiences with God and nature puts the odds in her favor. No doubt Dickinson has accomplished what she desired with this poem, to prove the key to heaven’s gate.
Emily Dickinson Closes of with, “So instead of getting to Heaven, at last –/ I’m going, all along.” (Franklin 236). The affiliation of getting into heaven is that, one has to first die to enter, along with dedicating the life and love to God. However, Emily is saying that she is having her heaven on earth. She practices religion and strengthens her relationship with God where she goes. It does have to be restricted to the church only. Being with the creator and his creations in nature is a slice of heaven to her and she has no doubt that she will have a spot in the kingdom of God forever and