Evaluation

Emily Dickinson was a great poet and is still world-renowned today. Dickinson is very worthy of study by a Christian reader for a few reasons, first because she herself claimed to be a Christian, although her idea of Christianity is odd and difficult to explain. Her faith and knowledge of the faith is also seen in her poetry where she mentions the resurrection in "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers". When reading poems by Dickinson I felt like I could personally connect with a few poems, specifically "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" when Dickinson mentioned the drum beating in line 6-7 I remember going to funerals and feeling a similar feeling that Dickinson mentioned. I did feel personally challenged with both my faith and my worldview when I did the research on Dickinson. I read her confusing beliefs on marriage that she shared with her future sister-in-law, and I feel that it made me think about how I defined marriage in my heart and re-visit what the Bible says about marriage.