Friday, March 23, 2012

Journal 27

Emily Dickinson uses a lot of hymns with her poetry. A lot of her poems can be read to the tune of "Amazing Grace." I think that her writing is very relevant to this song.
"Amazing Grace" is about nature and the amazing beauty of the world. This song is song a lot in time of happiness. When people feel that their lives are going good, this song is popular. This song is also sung in churches during worship time. It is a very beautiful song that is very popular.
I think that Emily Dickinson uses this song because it is beautiful and relates to nature just like her poetry does. Emily Dickinson greatly respects nature and a lot of her poetry, if not all, is about nature in some way. Her poetry is about the beauty of nature. She finds nature very important in life. She grew up in a christian family. Even though her writing was a struggle with Christianity, I think that she did respect the religion because she used this song in her writing. "Amazing Grace" is very religious and is basically about how great God is. It is also about how God graces us with our lives. God puts a lot of good into the world for people and this song describes it.
Emily Dickinson put folk ballads into her poems on purpose. I think that doing that action would be very time consuming. You would have to have the correct number of syllables. She took a lot of effort to make her poetry go to the tune of "Amazing Grace."
Emily Dickinson struggled with her beliefs. Even though she grew up with a Christian family, she did not fully believe in God at all points in her life. Everyone struggles with religion at some point of their live, but she struggled more than others. I think that by writing these poems to that hymn she is trying to further find her religion.

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