Emily Dickinson was laid to rest

Emily Dickinson was also an avid gardener...many of her poems included flowers
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Re-creation of Emily Dickinson's 19th-century New England flower garden, on display at the New York Botanical Garden's exhibition Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry of Flowers; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen.

When she was 11, Dickinson wrote of helping her mother tend the annuals and perennials in their cottage garden—roses, cyclamen, lobelia, tulips, and more. Later, the poet would care for flowers in her two-acre garden as well as in the conservatory her father built on the southeast corner of their home. Her youthful enthusiasm for botany inspired her at age 14 to mount a herbarium, a popular pastime for girls in the mid-1800s

"Dickinson would explore nearby woodlands and meadows for new flowers to collect. Ultimately, she pressed over 400 specimens into a leather-bound album, arranging her specimens artistically, labeling sixty-five of the four hundred with the genus and species according to the Linnaean system of classification.
 
WOW, thanks Lara, that's cool. Yes, I have walked around the Homestead grounds. The garden is basically on the corner of Main and Triangle streets. Head down Triangle st. to West cemetery.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
To be honest, as a guy, I don't have much in common with a 19th century romantic poet But I do know that her poems especially touched women, who revere her.
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That would be like me saying, "As a woman I don't have much in common with Shakespeare but I know men revere him"😆
I respect your opinion. Some men are romantic and some aren't.

But you probably don't know there's more to Emily Dickinson than romanticism. Romanticism is all throughout her poetry and lifestyle but she was also the barer of the threshold between the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist offshoot.

"Romantic characteristics and Transcendentalist ideals go hand and hand in her poem titled "I Could Not Stop for Death". Death, nature, and imagined past all compound with intuition and reliance on her inner being. By means of displaying Transcendentalist characteristics through Dickinson’s life, it can be safely concluded that Emily Dickinson was in fact the only person in America who really made Transcendentalism practical.”

Instead of looking outwards, she turned her sight inward. She reflected not only on moments of greatest pleasure, but also times of unrelenting pain and ambiguity toward her own spiritual identity and her constant struggle with the thought of death.

Instead of participating in a community based on religion that helps the surrounding community, she built her own “community" inside of herself by use of intuition and exercising her religious spirit.

"Dickinson’s solitary living promoted self betterment by means of her intuition and soul and her possible diagnosis of anorexia nervosa gives evidence to the lifestyle that one’s soul is vastly more important than “that which outwardly she showed.” From all of these traits one can conclude that Dickinson was in fact part of the Transcendentalist offshoot."
 
Lara said:
That would be like me saying, "As a woman I don't have much in common with Shakespeare but I know men revere him"😆
I respect your opinion. Some men are romantic and some aren't.

But you probably don't know there's more to Emily Dickinson than romanticism. Romanticism is all throughout her poetry and lifestyle but she was also the barer of the threshold between the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist offshoot.

"Romantic characteristics and Transcendentalist ideals go hand and hand in her poem titled "I Could Not Stop for Death". Death, nature, and imagined past all compound with intuition and reliance on her inner being. By means of displaying Transcendentalist characteristics through Dickinson’s life, it can be safely concluded that Emily Dickinson was in fact the only person in America who really made Transcendentalism practical.”

Instead of looking outwards, she turned her sight inward. She reflected not only on moments of greatest pleasure, but also times of unrelenting pain and ambiguity toward her own spiritual identity and her constant struggle with the thought of death.

Instead of participating in a community based on religion that helps the surrounding community, she built her own “community" inside of herself by use of intuition and exercising her religious spirit.

"Dickinson’s solitary living promoted self betterment by means of her intuition and soul and her possible diagnosis of anorexia nervosa gives evidence to the lifestyle that one’s soul is vastly more important than “that which outwardly she showed.” From all of these traits one can conclude that Dickinson was in fact part of the Transcendentalist offshoot."
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Fascinating, @Lara Louisa May Alcott was also part of the Transcendentalist movement, I believe
 
fuzzybuddy said:
To be honest, as a guy, I don't have much in common with a 19th century romantic poet But I do know that her poems especially touched women, who revere her.
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She was not a Romantic likes Keats or Shelley or Byron, if anything, she was more a Metaphysical poet, but not classified as such like Marvell or Donne. Alice and Phoebe Cary of Ohio are somewhat Romantics in style, or maybe I'm just partial, them being from Ohio.
 
(Having looked up the definition of Transcendentalist several times, best i can figure their trying to meld with nature.
The first stage is becoming a gnome, then with extreme study you become a fern.)

(Next we tackle these metaphysical folk)
 
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