“We must meet apart”: A Study of Man-Woman Relationship in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Abstract
This paper attempts to study the representation of man-woman relationship in the poetry of Emily Dickinson that incarnates the poet's unprejudiced and open-minded view of the interconnections between men and women through a poetic expression. Dickinson's life was full of silence and seclusion separated from the hue and cry of the outside world in proximity of her intimate friends. It was a life marked by earnest personal and inmost experience delineating sensitivity in every poem she wrote. Episodes of delight and jubilancy, joys of caring and sharing, agonies of suffering and affliction of her life are recorded faithfully in her works that bring the trials and tribulations of man-woman relationship. Dickinson’s preoccupations with human nature, love, death and issues related to gender are explored here in this essay from a critical perspective to analyze the various aspects of man-woman relationship in her poetry.
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