Tomas Kirklin English 260 Paul Acosta 5/27/17 Research Paper Within the history of this project which is our country, there are several authors that, compared to today, their values, principles, ideals, visions, and their cultural concepts of America cause tension to today’s values, principles, ideals, visions, and our cultural concepts of the united states, as well as they create tension between themselves. Within these tension, we will be taking a look at several writers from the begging to 1865. These writers were carefully chosen by yours truly. The writers we will be focusing on and analyzing to see how their each individual values, principles, ideals, visions, and cultural concepts of their country at the time compare and contrast …show more content…
And I feel like that is why I chose to concentrate on them, I did it because these authors are so uncommon from their own ages and believes that their believes would be the best and most interesting to analyze. Analyze the tension of their values, principles, ideals, visions that is this American society. So now we move on to see the values, principles, and ideals of Emily Dickenson who is a very famous poet in American history. Emily Dickinson was a passionate poet and her 1700+ poems make her to be now recognized as one of America's greatest poet’s greatest lyric poets of all time. Her poems have been seen by different critics from different points of view. One of them attempt to explain her poetry from an autobiographical stance, another point of view is analyzed from a psychological stance. The latter portraits several labels that define Dickinson as a “helpless agoraphobic woman trapped in her father's house,” while other opinions define her as a Puritan feminist victim of a patriarchal society, or from her father’s patriarchal yoke. These are only some examples of the critics’ theorizing of Emily Dickinson. Unavoidably, her untitled 1700+ poems give critics the fire to support their theories, giving an invitation to all sorts of speculation. Dickinson’s biography shows a life of seclusion and yet a passionate life of seclusion. She was confined to her close family circle and only she allowed a few …show more content…
Even though she was ambivalent to believe in God, she gave importance to man’s relationship to God and the nature of God. Her values spoke of God’s grace, conversion, and the sense of being saved. Though she came close to being converted once, she never felt God's call, a lack which caused her considerable disquiet and pain: "Tis a dangerous moment for any one when the meaning goes out of things and Life stands straight--and punctual--and yet no signal [from God] comes." Her attitude toward God in her poems ranges from friendliness to anger and bitterness, and He is at times indifferent, at other times