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Mind Map by mariya.razeen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mariya.razeen
over 10 years ago
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Emily Dickinson Context
- American civil war
- The confederacy
collapsed and
slavery was
abolished
- Became a symbol for increasing
commercialism, financial pressure,
formation of corporations and the
Puritan church
- Represents warring elements
which she believed was tearing
up society
- The confederacy
collapsed and
slavery was
abolished
- Transcendentalism
and Romanticism
- R - Value of felling and emotion over reasoning
- T - God was immanent in nature and man
- T - Soul is present in all things
- Relationship between humans and the natural world
- Believed that society and its
institutions (religion and
politics) corrupted the purity
of the individual
- R - Value of felling and emotion over reasoning
- Life
- Many debated her
sexuality - She was
devoted to her brother's
wife Sue - her true love?
- Her poetry shows that
she is a rebel against
many of the normal
attitudes to their religion,
culture and society at the
time.
- Fear she was losing sight - 1864-65
- Recluse -
white dress -
agoraphobic
to avoid social
obligations
- Poems were published
after death
- Many debated her
sexuality - She was
devoted to her brother's
wife Sue - her true love?
- Calvinism and
Puritanism
- Puritanism purify all
Roman catholic forms -
much stricter lifestyle
- TULIP - those
who despair will
not be able to
enter heaven
- Total depravity - all humans are capable of sin
- Unconditional election - God chooses
who is saved - The elect
- Limited atonement - Jesus Christ
only died for the sins of the elect
- Irresistible grace - elect cannot resist
the call
- Perseverance of the
saints - Elect cannot
lose their salvation
- Emphasised human
goodness as they believed
God existed in everyone but
also recognised the
presence of evil
- Puritanism purify all
Roman catholic forms -
much stricter lifestyle
- Gothic genre
- Very common in
novels at the
time
- Dickinson adopted many
characteristics such as sounds
- Gives poem dramatic vividness
- Very common in
novels at the
time
- 19th century women
- Responsible for
maintaining moral and
spiritual values
- Domesticated - Dickinson
reveals conflicting attitudes
towards this ideology
- Expected to marry
- Usually women
who wrote were
prompted by
their husbands
due to their
inability to
provide for them
- protests about
women's rights
were provoked
by the inferior
roles women
played in society
- Responsible for
maintaining moral and
spiritual values
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