... and the confining religious orthodoxy of New England Calvinism. Its beliefs were idealistic, mystical, eclectic and individualistic. The poet Ralph Waldo Emerson set the tone for the era of transcendentalism when he said, "Who so would be a human, must be a non-conformist-. Emily Dickinson believed and practiced this philosophy. ... of death brought up within the poems. As with most poetry, Dickinson often writes about subjects and activities that relate her thoughts in a roundabout way. For example, in her poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz- a dead observer watches a fly buzzing around during th...

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