Reflection on the Human-Nature Relationship:Reinterpretation of Emily Dickinson’s“My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun”

• 作者: 周雪娟
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Emily Dickenson “My LIFE HAD stood-a Loaded Gun” eco-critical interpretation REFLECTION human-nature relation?ship
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（15）
• 页码范围: 218-219
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: I06

摘要

Emily Dickenson’s poems have long enjoyed considerable acclaims from critics and common readers for her delicate and profound writing of life and death,love,nature,etc.Her short poem“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”is one receiving relatively few academic discussion.Among the rather few existent studies,many discuss Dickenson’s feminist ideas,religious bewilderment,literary creation views or even personal feeling in this poem.This article,instead,gives an interpretation of this poem from an ecocritical perspective.It points out that Emily Dickenson in this poem expresses her condemnation on human’s cruelty and indiffer?ence to nature.After a thorough interpretation of Dickenson’s reflection on human-nature relationship in this poem,the article fur?ther explores Dickenson’s attitudes toward nature through her personal writing background and clues in her other works to support this interpretation.