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Essay on I should have been too glad, I see
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Throughout Emily’s life, her mother was not "emotionally accessible," the absence of which might have caused some of Emily’s eccentricity. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800’s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry
She was undoubtedly, one of the greatest poets in American Literature. Her unique lyrics depict philosophies of intense thoughts. Dickinson found it difficult to accept the religious orthodox faith of her time, at the same time yearned for spiritual comfort one obtains from it. As a mature woman she was a recluse, she shied away from emotional contact. This melancholy is felt in her work.
“She seems to have had no reference, in all the rest, to anything but her own thought.”
Dickinson begins the poem in statement about personal assessment; a sadness indicating how frugal life was for her. “Circuit” refers to church congregations that would question her temperament. This being the reason she had consciously detached from religion...........
