Emily Dickinson

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This paper analyzes the personal lifestyle of the reclusive soul in the poetic works of Emily Dickinson. The author points out that, her various poems reflect her definition of the soul, through which the reader can understand her Puritanical upbringing that refused to be tainted by society at large. The paper relates that her privatization of poetry remains her identifying mark within her verse because she felt pre-destined to realize the purity in her ideology of the reclusive life.

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"This literature analysis presents the "reclusive soul" that was part of the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. By analyzing her life in a biographical perspective, one can understand the deeply private and reclusive nature of Dickinson's life. Through a refusal to interact with society at large Dickinson felt that the soul should not be tarnished by external society, especially in preserving the poetic sanctuary of the individual. In this study, there will be an analysis that reflects the reclusive soul in Dickinson's life through biographical means, as well as through her poetry. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and resided in Amherst, Massachusetts for all of her life."

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