... a deep sense of mystery and a desire to know the why of things (Chelsea House of Library Criticism 2841). Harold Bloom said, "her best poetry is not concerned with the causes but with the qualities of pain" (19), which allows her to deal with the feelings "that the God of her fathers, ... not really" (Tate 84). Her symbol of nature was death, and her only weapon against death was her faith (Tate 84). She realizes that it is when a man's faith runs dry that he must refresh his soul with the sanity, which lies only in nature (Whicher 87). "Miss Dickinson possessed ... father's house. "Sh...

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