Feminine Empowerment and Individualism Analysis in Emily Dickinson’s Selected Poems

Meram Salim Shekh Mohamad

doi:10.25212/lfu.qzj.7.4.48

توێژەران

Meram Salim Shekh Mohamad Department of English, College of Education and Languages, Lebanese French University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

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https://doi.org/10.25212/lfu.qzj.7.4.48

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Individualism, Femininity, Transcendentalism, Power, Dickinson

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This study is a feminine individualistic analysis of transcendentalism in Emily Dickinson’s selected poems, especially the feminine empowerment, individualism and self-reliance. Generally, it pertains to the field of Transcendentalism, which is within the domain of feminism and modernism.

The aim of this paper is to pinpoint the power of femininity and individualism as the most important features in transcendentalism through Dickinson’s work as one of the key figures of modern literature. We get the author’s message and her feminine and individual power through a number of her poems and explaining them in detail. Moreover, it makes understanding how she valued the spirit in terms of individualism and how she achieved her writings by shutting herself alone, believing in her femininity and her spiritual skills. A contextual analysis is given to the poems.

the data relevant to individualistic feminine empowerment are drawn from some well-known English sources. The examples that are illustrated in this study are cited from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.

The study is a qualitative- descriptive-analytic and the steps involved are as collecting data on the subject, analyzing the data, setting up the hypothesis, and matching the data with the hypothesis, moreover to mention the style of the paper. Some remarkable concluding points end the paper.

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