에밀리 디킨슨: 죽음 탐구자 = Emily Dickinson: An investigator of Death

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Emily Dickinson is a peculiar poet in the respect that she was preoccupied with death throughout her life, which is proved by the fact that more than five hundred among one thousand and seven hundred poems she wrote concerned death. Such attitude of hers would have been made by her faith, puritanism, and deep and sore wounds of love. What I suggest here is that although she belongs to the traditional Christianity, she never brings forth the problems of sin and redemption to make the aesthetics of death: "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
Through rereading Emily Dickinson's poems dealing with death, we can see that, although her view of death is fundamentally based upon New England's puritanism, it also reflects the conflict between Christian theology and science. Emily Dickinson tries to view death as the threshold to the immortality based on puritanism. She has, however, started to have doubt towards the Christianity's heaven and immortality. And then she, as an investigator, begins to investigate what death is.
In short, Emily Dickinson has a view of death as a modernist in the respects that, based upon modern science, she wants to investigate death and that she views it as a routine not dissociated from life. Furthermore, she attempts to decorate death with an aesthetic color. My last conclusions are that her death poems show certain conflicts between religion and science, and also between morality and aesthetics, and that she is an investigator of death as well as an experimentalist of death.