V.

Conclusions
As I already stated in the argument, I tried to cover in this paper at least a
part of this large field belonging to psychoanalytical literature. Emily Dickinson
is unique, her poetry is unique therefore the impact on the reader is astonishing
and usually different. Her subjects are often linked with her own feelings, her
greatest technique is to write about her emotion by using a preacher like tone
that seems to describe the readers mind as well as the poets. The language
Dickinson she uses is brilliant, because she compresses a great deal of meaning
into a very small number of words. This can make her poem hard to understand
on a first reading, but after a closer look and an even closer analysis the lines
become unforgettably clear. Dickinsons rich imagination can lead into some
pretty peculiar territories but she soon manages to bring us back by writing those
beautiful nature lyrics and often by combining the two with such a great ease.
She also had an important contribution for the American literature. Critics
have disputed her talent throughout her entire lifetime, but also came to the
conclusion that her originality is unquestionable. Emily Dickinson, unlike other
any other poets, has had a great talent in choosing the rhythm, the rhyme, the
vocabulary (better said her forceful language), her heavy iambic meters, her
well-known capitalization, her unusual use of disruptive dashes.
Another characteristic of her poems consisted in the frequent use of the dash that
I tried to analyze in a subchapter entitled: Eccentric use of dash. I have
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inherent genius and at the same time due to the influence of Lawrence Sterne
(who also used extensively varied dashes into his work).
Another important issue that I have encountered in Dickinsons work was
the nontitling of her poems. Due to this matter, her publishers tried to number
the poems in their various collected editions, along to the first line of the poem.
One of the reasons for nontitling was that she never wanted to publish her
poems, and her critics try to offer different explanations regarding this matter.
As Marianne Moore's said: her "Omissions are not accidents.Further on I try to
deal with her work from a psychoanalytical point of view. Starting from general
characteristics belonging to the psychoanalytical field, I tried to use them in
order to analyze this side of her work. I found interesting the handling of the self
materialized into id, ego and superego in many of her poems. The way she uses
the consciousness in relation with the unconsciousness brings out the state of
meditation that best describes her poems.
She embraces themes such as death, nature, inner world and turns out to
be obsessed with them as we can clearly see throughout her work. Further on I
tried to materialize these themes in some poems that were taken as an example:
I heard a fly buzz when I died for the theme of death, I felt a funeral in my
brain for the theme of the inner world and finally Nature is what we see for
the theme of nature. Of course I did not discuss some other themes that have
been discovered by her critics such as: love, pain and ecstasy, God and religion,
because I was only interested in the psychoanalytic ones. All I can do is to name
some poems in which these themes can be found: for the theme of love: If you
were coming in the fall, I cannot live with you, I started early took my
dog, Wild nights! Wild nights! ; for the theme of pain and ecstasy: Pain has
an element of blank, Success is counted sweetest, After great pain a formal
feeling comes, I measure every grief I meet, I had been hungry all the years,
My life closed twice before its close;and eventually for the theme of God and
religion: He fumbles at your spirit, Heaven is what I cannot reach, The
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He doesnt weary.
Ambiguities, eccentric punctuation, phrases, these are parts of her poems
that help us in our quest for analyzing them from a stylistic point of view. Her
entire work will live due to her immense love for words, her passion for nature,
her infinite devotion for poetry.
The fact that she didnt publish more than ten poems throughout her life,
made her poetry even more valuable. Her work became Americas greatest
poetic legacy, and nowadays her place is along with Whitman in the canon of
American poetry.

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