Emily Dickinson - Society
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- Created on: 06-12-13 09:41
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- Emily Dickinson - Society
- Calvinism - inner conflict
- Rejection
- #303: 'The Soul selects her own Society'
- Doesn't believe she's one of the elect
- 'her' - soul is given a gender, is Dickinson referring to herself?
- #303: 'To her divine majority'
- 'her' - soul is given a gender, is Dickinson referring to herself?
- 'divine' - link to religion, soul is divine
- #303: 'The Soul selects her own Society'
- Accepts
- #303: 'The Soul selects her own Society'
- 'selects' - link to Calvinism, you're chosen, there's not a physical choice
- #303: 'The Soul selects her own Society'
- References
- #303: 'To her divine majority'
- 'divine' - link to religion, soul is divine
- #303: 'Like Stone'
- Stone is unchanging, links to presentation of the soul as unchanging, is she describing society as unchanging too?
- Reference to Jesus in the tomb, the Stone was pushed in front, but Jesus got out - so perhaps there's space for these societal pressures to change
- #303: 'To her divine majority'
- Compares herself to Jesus / God
- #1737: 'None suspect me of the crown,'
- Jesus' crown of thorns
- Nobody thought that Jesus was the Son of God
- Nobody believed that Dickinson was a good poet - perhaps because of her gender?
- Nobody believed that Dickinson was a good poet - perhaps because of her gender?
- #1737: 'None suspect me of the crown,'
- Rejection
- Gender
- Position of Women
- #1737: 'Make me bearded like a man!'
- Why does Dickinson want to be like a man?
- At the time, it was hard for women to be recognised
- Why does Dickinson want to be like a man?
- She lived in a man's world
- #1737: 'Seven years of troth have taught thee // More than Wifehood ever may!"
- Is it better to be unmarried?
- #303: 'The Soul selects her own Society'
- 'her': The Soul is given a gender, is Dickinson referring to herself?
- #1737: 'Make me bearded like a man!'
- Position of Women
- Calvinism - inner conflict
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