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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. The place was a sleepy village, in the lush Connecticut Valley, and that place was dominated by the Church and the college. Her father is Edward and her mother is Emily Norcross Dickinson. Her father was a religious and political man. She was taught by their parents, and it could give great effect how she became a woman. Dickinson was reared in Trinitarian Congregationalism, but she never joined the Church. Although, she was growth in a Christian family, but she felt that her father forced her to choose Christianity.
Dickinson graduated from Amherst Academy in 1987. And the longest time, she was ever to spend away from her home. She joined the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary at South Hadley. She was sick, so that she didn’t return. She never married and after she was 30 years old, she was seldom seen by anyone outside of her immediate family.
After that, she wrote a poem about her relationship with God and Nature, for example “Some keep the Sabbath”. This poem told about comparing the institution of Church to nature. She has compared between Bobolinks (small songbird) with a song leader in the Church. It was showed in (line 3). And in line 5-6, it showed that servant attended for worship to take place. She said that the finest was not important thing to her God, God required the servant to go to the Church, although they did not use the beautiful or complicate clothing. She also thought about the meaning of a heaven. She though that a heaven was a reward at the end of the churchgoer’s life. By communing worship nature, she hoped that she could receive the same religious sermons. This poem, also told about commandment command on remember Sabbath and keep it holly.( exodus 20: 8-11). Finally, her belief that she find’s God holly worship nature. From that poem, we could she how Dickinson sees religious. She was a religious person and churchgoer. She though that her God was everything. She didn’t require other people to make relationship in her life, and she made a big decision in her life (she never married) and I saw that this poem didn’t support the theme of the previous two poems. Because, the poems described about dramatic irony. And irony meant that what you say and you feel is different. But, all of those poems have similarity. Dickinson always uses nature to interpret their poem.