... without I love Christ." To better understand Emily's Beliefs, and therefore her strange use of language, we need to understand the climate of the society she grew up in and experienced every day. Nicholas Tredell gives a little background information, "In 1846, Amherst experienced one of its periodic religious ... had already confided her doubts about faith to the more devout Abiah, and she kept her distance from the increased evangelical fervor. Her poetry was to display a strong fascination with faith, especially with the ideas of immortality and eternity, but it would combine this wi...

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