Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Emily Dickinson, transcendentalist or not?
Emily Dickinson is not a transcendentalist. While she does incorporate the study of nature into her work, she doesn't ever really fully embrace it in a way that is transcendentalist. She uses metaphors of bees, flowers, and grass, but they are merely metaphors, unlike Thoreau and Emerson, they are not actually used to escape from mainstream occurances.
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