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Manacle, Death, Time,I should like to begin this section with a fairly close look at the following poem by Emily Dickinson (it is, I think, a key poem for the understanding both of herself as poet and of our time — a poem in which the personal, subjective experience embodied in it is very clearly also representative of the consciousness of our age):

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Introduction, reveal her more clearly in what I believe to be her true stature and significance as a representative poet in the mainstream tradition of modern Western literature. Here are two quotations which, indicating as they do something of what is involved in being a representative modern poet, should help

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First Approach,, is the centrally representative character of her achievement at its best — representative, that is, not of the prevailing fashions of her day, but of its real underlying currents; and centrally so because these currents can be recognised today as the true mainstream currents of Western literature

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Poetry and Consciousness, consciousness, it is the distinction between the common substratum of the human consciousness and the developed mouldings and formulations of the consciousness that make it particular to the individual poet and to the age in which he lives — though there is inevitably some oversimplification in thu

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The Existentialist Response,kground presence, Kant, and all the conditions for its emergence as a stance or a way of life or an explicit philosophy already existed in the consciousness of Emily Dickinson’s time — her distinction is that she brought to conscious expression in poetry what was potentially already there; and, in d

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,Reality as ‘Abyss’,re in the ordinary consciousness of his class or of society as a whole. As a poet, however, he is likely to have a more than ordinary awareness of the inability of the ordinary social consciousness to recognise and articulate its own reality, and of the need to penetrate that reality. I am thinking

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