Dickenson Whereas Many of the Other Posts Term Paper

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Whereas many of the other posts about Emily Dickenson focused on the poet's obsession with death, you chose to focus on her equally powerful interest in the theme of love. I appreciated this change of pace, and being able to explore Dickenson's poetry from a more cheerful standpoint. Love, at least romantic love, is an old theme as you point out. Dickenson does borrow some of her perspective on romantic love from influences like Shakespeare and also from mythology and also the Bible, which also has some love poetry.

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Where do you think Dickenson derives most of her love-related themes from in literature? Although you focus on Dickenson's "Wild Nights, Wild Nights!" you do not mention whether the poet was also writing about sexuality as well as love. To write about sexuality as a woman in the Victorian Age would have been outright scandalous, so perhaps Dickenson cloaked her feelings about sexuality in ambiguous language. The title and first line of "Wild Nights, Wild Nights!" certainly does seem….....

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