Born in 1830, Emily Dickinson is a poet whose “genius for metaphorical invention is scarcely inferior to that of Shakespeare.” (Hughes) But unlike other poets who experience life first-handed like Shakespeare, Emily spent her life mostly isolated from society. Since she did not have direct contact with the outside world, her experiences of life came mostly from the people surrounded her and books, and they, nevertheless, has tremendous influence on her work religiously and psychologically. On the religion end, since her society is heavily influenced by Christianity brought up by the New England Transcendentalism movement, it is no surprise that her vocabulary consisted of religious words such as “paradise, Jesus, Gethsemane, Eden, crucifixion,
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It is the end of a person consciousness, as she wrote: “I could not see to see.”
Being separated from everyone without a doubt will inflicted pains onto Emily. It might just be a natural occurrence. Emily’s view pain differently, as she implied “On the one hand, pain and despair have the potential to rob us of human capacities and reduce us to physical nature, but on the other they can be a stimulus to extraordinary creativity and insight; suffering leads alternatively to vigor or to prostration,” calling them “life-enhancing and the insupportable.” (Hughes)
In “To learn the Transport by the Pain,” Emily portraits a scenario where a blind man is looking straight at the sun. Even though he lacks the vision of a regular person, the fact that he cannot see and feel sunlight prevents him from feeling the luminosity of sunlight. Yet he suffered an inevitable pain of not having vision, if he can lift himself over and carry on, “nothingness and negativity are strangely empowering.”(Hughes)
However, pain are not always
It is the end of a person consciousness, as she wrote: “I could not see to see.”
Being separated from everyone without a doubt will inflicted pains onto Emily. It might just be a natural occurrence. Emily’s view pain differently, as she implied “On the one hand, pain and despair have the potential to rob us of human capacities and reduce us to physical nature, but on the other they can be a stimulus to extraordinary creativity and insight; suffering leads alternatively to vigor or to prostration,” calling them “life-enhancing and the insupportable.” (Hughes)
In “To learn the Transport by the Pain,” Emily portraits a scenario where a blind man is looking straight at the sun. Even though he lacks the vision of a regular person, the fact that he cannot see and feel sunlight prevents him from feeling the luminosity of sunlight. Yet he suffered an inevitable pain of not having vision, if he can lift himself over and carry on, “nothingness and negativity are strangely empowering.”(Hughes)
However, pain are not always