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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
The problems of this study are formulated as follows : 1
How was Emily Dickinson’s concept about the doubt to the existance of God in her poems?
2 In what way does she describe God?
3 Does her concept of God have relationship to the background of her life?
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1.3 The Scope of The Study
Emily Dickinson’s concept of God in some of her poems about the doubt of God existance that has the religious theme in Emily Dickinson collected poems by
Thomas Jhonson.
1.4 The Objectives of The Study
The Objectives of the study are : 1
To find out Emily Dickinson’s Concept about the doubt of God in her poems
2 To know the way she describe God
3 To know the relationship between the concept to her background
1.5 The Significance of The Study
At this point, I would give some of the significance of the study. This study gives a valuable lesson to the writer as well as the reader in enriching their mind to
understand the way of God exist in life. The other significance is the thesis may be useful for the other students who plan to do further researchesin the similar topic.
There are two the significances of the study, they are : 1. The Significance of Theorities :
a To add the glossary of literature especially in Poetry b To describe the reason of the doubt about God’s existence in some
of Emily Dickinson’s poems. 2. The Significance of Practice :
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a As a reference to the readers who are interested in gaining more about poetry especially in Emily Dickinson’s poem that has a
religious theme.
1.6 Review of The Related Literature
In supprting this proposal, I refer to some related books which are listed as follows:
1. The Heath Anthology American Literature by Paul Lauter. This book places in the history of American poetry, and describes some
famous American poets, along with their poems and their biography from the 19 centuries.
2. The Letters of Emily Dickinson 3 vols edited by Thomas H. Johnson This book contain his three-volume variorum edition of her poems. It tells us
that T. H. Johnson published her poems 3 vol., 1955 and letters 3 vol., 1958.
3. American Literature to 1900 by Lewis Leary This book lists the collections of the American’s writers. It consits of a
biography and critical studies on the writer, and a signed critical essay on his work The biographies, details of education, military service, and marriages
are generally given before the usual chronological summary of the life of the writer.
4. An Anthology edited by Charles R .Joy. This book contains Albert Schweitzer anthology that talks about ethical, and
spiritual values of a man. He is more and more commanding the thought and arousing the interest of mankind.
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5. Poetry and Prose edited by John Bryson. This book talks about poetry and prose by Matthew Arnold, but more
emphasis on the literature and religious reformer.
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CHAPTER II THE CLARIFICATIONS OF THE TERMS
