Lasmeida Metriana Nababan : Emily Dickinson’s Concept Of God In Some Of Her Poems, 2010.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of The Study
Literature is the class of writings in which imaginative expression, aesthetic form, universality of ideas, and permanence are characteristic features, as fiction,
poetry, romance, and drama. Pei : 1978, 557. It means that literature is the art of writing that full of expression and idea because it is a product of imagination that
expresses the reality into the work of art. Roberts and Jacobs 1993, 2 classify literature into four categories or genres;
they are: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. Poetry expresses a conversation or intercharge that is grounded in the most deeply felt experiences of
human beings. Poetry is often created from the desire to escape the logical, as well as expressing feeling other expressions in a tight, condensed manner. Usually, the poet
tells her thoughts and feelings into the poem that she created. People create poetry not only to make a sentence but also to bring meanings because every word that they are
creating is meaningful. They create poems to express their feeling or experiences in their life.
There is much famous poetry, they usually make a poem to express their feeling about something and one of them is Emily Dickinson’s. She makes a poem
based on her life. She is widely considered one of the greatest poets in American literature.
Emily Dickinson writes the poems as the description of her feelings. She wrote poetry to indicates the object of her feelings in her poetic imagination. While
Dickinson wrote love poetry that indicates a strong attachment, it has proved impossible to know the object of her feelings, or even how much was fed by her
Lasmeida Metriana Nababan : Emily Dickinson’s Concept Of God In Some Of Her Poems, 2010.
poetic imagination. The chief tension in her work comes from a different source: her inability to accept the orthodox religious faith of her day and her longing for its
spiritual comfort. Dickinson never made a formal declaration of faith and attended services regularly for only a few years.
She was born on Amherst in the 1840s, dominated by the Church and the college but she never joined the Church. She is a reclusive woman and like to spent
all her time at home. The facts of her life are few and simple, the interpretations many and complex, That is why I am interested to know how is the way she communicated
all her idea, concept of God towards to the reality of her life through the poems. In this case, Emily Dickinson writes the poem as the description of her attitude
and feeling. In Emily Dickinson’s poems she had tells unsatisfied feeling toward God about her life. Emily Dickinson hopes that such barrier could not happened in her life.
But in reality it happen. That is why she is always doubt to the existence of God in her life, she thinks that God is never exist in her life and she refuse to the rule of God.
So this study will explain how Emily Dickinson’s concept about God in her poems that has a religious theme.
1.2 The Problems of The Study
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