Visualization of Death and Actualization of Identity in Emily Dickinsons Poetry
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
This paper considers the visualization of death and actualization of identity in Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s (1830-1886) poetry and analyzes the relation between them. It is argued that many of Dickinson’s poems have the theme of death-immortality to confirm another world beyond death and a new life of the soul. Some other poems deal with identity and the power of the soul. She mostly visualizes death by external incarnations and signs, as an actual experience happened to her. Dickinson presents death not as something destructive which anybody cringes away in terror, but something gentle, and constructive. She is so hopeful about afterlife that this feeling helps her to be in quest of independency, and to realize her own identity. She was a follower of the doctrine of ‘self-reliance’ which later appeared as self-actualization for psychologists. Satisfaction of common needs, like hunger, makes man to feel a demand for satisfaction of higher needs, like independency and self-actualization. This self-actualization refers to one’s abilities and skills to achieve the meaning of life as much as she/he can possibly achieve. The doctrine of self-actualization from Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) and Carl Gustav Jung’s (1875-1961) points of view on death, spirituality, and afterlife are used in this paper. Two theories are used to show self-actualization along with visualization of death in Dickinson’s poetry, which develop this idea that she, as a spiritualist and a self-actualized person, consciously chooses her way of life and subject of poetry.
Authors and Affiliations
Nasim Zahedi Doost| MA Student, Postgraduate Department of English Language and Literature, College of Humanities, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, Iran. email: nasyym@gmail.com, Leila Baradaran Jamili| Assistant Professor of Postgraduate Department of English Language and Literature, College of Humanities, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd, Iran.
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