Belonging Essay - Emily Dickinson

"THE HUMAN SPIRIT CRAVES A SENSE OF BELONGNING"
TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE TEXTS YOU HAVE STUDIED SUPPORT THIS IDEAS?
The human spirit craves belonging. It is part of the human spirit to seek interaction and search for acceptance as it is a basic human need, yet the forces associated with belonging or not belonging for the individual may evolve. Emily Dickinson has thoroughly explored how the human spirit desires a sense of acceptance and belong through her collection of poems. The Specific poems of Dickinson "I died for beauty but was scarce" and "A word dropped careless on a page" explore the human spirit in relation to belonging through techniques of metaphors, inverted syntaxes, structure, extended metaphors and precise and concise language.
Society becomes equal in death as the human spirit lives after death. This can be explained by death silencing the individual, stripping their identity and making then equal. Throughout Dickinson's life she never was accepted by society so she lived a life of alienation which she was happy to live, as Dickinson believed that she could belong to society after death as they would receive her message, similar to Jesus Christ who was rejected by society who then   died for mankind who finally understood his message after his death. Considering that Dickinson was never accepted by society, she has highlighted to her audience that she is happy to die, as society would then understand her message of equality through death from the lack of communication and individuality. Dickinson shows this within her poem, "I died for beauty but was scarce" through the quote "Themself are one" a paradox emphasizing to the audience that society is equal in death.   Society becomes equal in death due to individuals becoming silent through death, which is seen in the metaphor "until the moss had reached our lips" . Dickinson has effectively portrayed this through her constant engagements with her audience. Within each stanza of the poem "I died for...