Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method &amp; Meaning

Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff

doi:10.1353/edj.0.0128

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“…(23) According to Oberhaus (1996), "When read as a single, self-sufficient text, this poem is customarily read as a light-hearted mock-elegy for the death of summer" (p. 152). The "benediction may appear to be a whimsical undercutting of Christian orthodoxy or even a blasphemous parody of the Christian Trinity" (p. 154).…”

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Emily Dickinson: Poet as Pastoral Theologian

Cook

2011

Pastoral Psychol

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Mystic. Rebel. Recluse. Genius. Skeptic. Poet. Pastoral theologian? Who was Emily Dickinson? Among other descriptors, Dickinson (1830-1886) was a complex 19th century woman who possessed great intellectual and poetic gifts, whose life and work retains tantalizing mysteries, and who can be considered a fascinating "woman out of order" in her time and still in ours (Stevenson-Moessner & Snorton 2010). Immersing oneself in the stories that continue to spin around her life and ongoing discussion about the meaning of her poems can be a rewarding, inspiring adventure, and in what follows, I attempt to show how at least some of her poems can be considered artistic expressions of pastoral theology.

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