E Dickinson

Throughout these poems Emily Dickinson speaks a lot about nature, though she does not have a kind relationship with it as you can see in this quote, “I dear not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow grown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.” (Emily Dickinson XIV In Shadows). The fact that she fears nature is the exact opposite of transcendentalist ways. For to a transcendentalist nature is inherently good and one cannot fear something that is good in nature. Dickinson in XIV states that she wishes bears and bees would stay away and this is part of nature and if she wants nature to stay way then she is not “awake”. In the poem XX she discuses her self drinking and this would probably be considered part of society, and transcendentalist consider society bad. From the facts given it is obvious that Dickinson is not a transcendentalist.