ECCENTRICIES IN EMILY DICKINSON'S NATURE POETRY

Nature provides subject matter and imagery inEmily Dickinson's poetry. However, her treatment of nature, ingeneral, differs greatly from that used by her contemporaries. She was writing at the same time that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman were writing, but while the poets emphasize the importance of nature in man's life, the oneness of the individual with nature, she approaches the subject from an objective point of view, describing the beatiful as well as the ugly details of nature with a keenly observant eye, managing to capture the essential qualities of the object she describes.