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This 5 page paper discusses the shift in perspectives of the Victorian poets toward religion. Exampled poets include: Emily Dickinson, Keats, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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changes occurring. These changes were reflected in the literature of the day. Before this time religious poetry had been the norm and its subject matter and themes had been strident
in its fervor. Not so any longer. With the Victorian Era came a new sensibility, and with this sensibility a shift in perspective. Emily Dickinsons writings on religion are some
of the most enigmatic, from this time period, that still exist today and though it can be assured that they reflect her particular feelings and views concerning organized religion, it
can also be said that she looked beyond the confines of her age to see where religion might lead. It might possibly be that Ms. Dickinson, though influenced by
her fathers Calvinistic ways, was also a bit rebellious against the strict puritanical teachings of the church. The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a
prime example of Dickinsons brutal insight into the world of the orthodox. It would seem, in this poem, that she admonishes both the clergy who are so removed from the
lives of the ordinary man that they can not minister effectively, and to those who are followers of the faith and have effectively removed themselves from the troubled lives of
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before they have been put in the ground
"Sleep the meek members of the resurrection". And the added sorrow, she would seem to be saying is that those who are so blinded by their religion die two deaths,
the first when they are unaware of others around them, and secondly their physical death which ensures that they will not have a chance to make up for their blindness.
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