1、 nShe has been given grown recognition as a poet of significance.Dickinson began to study botany at the age of nine and to tend the garden at Homestead at the age of twelve.Dickinsons garden was the place where she spent much of her time and where she found much of her inspiration.“Dickinson was kno
2、wn more widely as a gardener,perhaps,than as a poet.-Judith Farr In her lifetime,Dickinson was obsessed with two things:gardening and writing poetry.The garden of flowers helped to generate the garden of her poetry.By using the images of flowers and birds as metaphors,she expressed her meditations o
3、n love,nature,death and immortality and life.By:邝国基 0607Emily Dickinsons poetry has much to do with nature.There are frequent references,direct a n d i n d i r e c t,t o v a r i o u s phenomena of nature.She wrote on flowers,bees,birds and spiders,on caterpillars and butterflies,on lightening and vo
4、lcanoes,and many other things f o u n d i n n a t u r e.Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-The Carriage held but just Ourselves-And Immortality.personified as a gentleman callerWe slowly drove-He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my Leisure too,For His Civility-dea
5、th described as civil,rather courteous and polite a religious context We passed the School,where Children stroveAt Recess-in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-We passed the Setting Sun-childhood maturity the descent into death Or rather-He passed Us-The Dews drew quivering and chill-For
6、only Gossamer,my Gown-My Tippet-only TulleWe paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground-The Roof was scarcely visible-he Coraice-in the GroundSince then-tis Centuries-and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the HorsesHeadsWere toward Eternity-the thin lacy fabric worn at wed
7、dings as a veil,or the black lacy mourning veil tombstone,the house barley above the ground Given the unimaginable concept of the souls immortality,units of time are rendered meaningless.A Route of EvanescenceA Route of EvanescenceWith a revolving Wheel With a revolving Wheel A Resonance of Emerald A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal A Rush of Cochineal And every Blossom on the BushAnd every Blossom on the BushAdjusts its tumbled Head Adjusts its tumbled Head The mail from Tunis,probably,The mail from Tunis,probably,An easy Mornings Ride An easy Mornings Ride http:/
