Emily Dickinson and Italian Allusions
Analyze the following poems in terms of their Italian allusions and try to relate back to my thesis (and include other striking features):" My Thesis: There is a series of Dickinson’s poems with admiring allusions to Italy — its past and present — which suggests that Dickinson sought an emotional landscape within a geographical one: In going to Italy in her mind and in her art, Dickinson transcended the limits of patriarchal Amherst, and found a place where freedom of spirit and deep passion erupted unimpeded" (thesis) Poems are as follows (#s follow Franklin edition): #535: "It might be lonelier" #1691: "V