Would you continue to trust someone when they continue to take things away from you? In this poem by Emily Dickinson called I never lost as much but twice she uses a lot of figurative languages. God takes two very important people out of her life but then helps her find peace per say them then once again take someone away that is very important as well again so she basically ends up not trusting God anymore calling him a burglar and a banker. Once no longer being able to turn to God and trust him any longer she turns to her friends and family for strength and help. Trust only lasts so long. Emily Dickinson was Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson left school when she was a teenager. She lived a simple life on the family homestead. “Her lively Childhood and Youth were filled with schooling, reading, explorations of nature, religious activities, significant friendships, and several key encounters with poetry. Her most intense Writing Years …show more content…
It is hard to read her letters and poems and not accept the fact that she suffered lots of traumatic emotional experiences or that her behavior was, odd. But whatever the exact nature of this experience, whatever the causes, however, analyzed in whatever discipline, Emily Dickinson would have understood it within the context provided by her strong traditional culture. It is her poetry that is important to us, and if her poetry is her response to her experience, neither Freud, nor Jung, nor Sappho can give the primary approach for our understanding of what she wrote. To understand Emily Dickinson, it is necessary to be familiar with the spiritual Calvinist tradition of belief in a psychological crisis of conversion from the Egypt of worldly bondage across the wilderness to the promised