LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Devout Catholic
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Non-practicing Jew
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Protestant, but questioned religion
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Raised Baptist, but became Wiccan
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Detailed explanation-1: -In spite of her Emersonian influences, Dickinson depicts a trinitarian God. She believes and accepts Jesus’s salvific nature of suffering, death, and resurrection based on the integrity of his personal life. The King James Version of the Bible was both a book of faith and a treasure house for her poetic imagery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Clearly, Emily Dickinson wanted to believe in God and immortality, and she often thought that life and the universe would make little sense without them. Possibly her faith increased in her middle and later years; certainly one can cite certain poems, including “Those not live yet, ” as signs of an inner conversion.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dickinson most often punctuated her poems with dashes, rather than the more expected array of periods, commas, and other punctuation marks. She also capitalized interior words, not just words at the beginning of a line.
Detailed explanation-4: -She speaks of God and Heaven in many of her poems. Some of her poems that include religious aspects are: “God permits industrious angels", “Going to Heaven!", “I went to Heaven", and “Bless God, he went as soldiers” (The Poetry of Emily Dickinson).