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Nature in the Poetry of 3 Female Poets

ath, immortality, eternity, and poetry itself.

Much of Dickinson's image of nature relates to fecundity as expressed through the plants, insect, and animals she sees all around the equally fecund human community. The two are often related in her love poetry. This can be seen in "A Bee his burnished Carriage" as the poet depicts the bee taking his pleasure of the rose and then leaving her humbled by the rapture:

The only interest between the bee and the rose is sexual. The situation emphasizes the power of the male, who takes the active role in initiating the union and pleasure, while the female remains stationary and is the passive recipient of the male's will.

"In Winter in my Room" is an erotically symbolic work that is at once a graphic description of the power of sexual attraction and an analysis of the fear and revulsion that attraction may arouse. The imagery can be given a Freudian interpretation, and the allegorical form of the poem makes the poem a classic example of repressed desire. This is a poem about hunger and love, and the poem displays the poet's ambivalent attitudes about love. In the poem, we can see the use of the poet's own house and room as the site of her speculations. That room is often closed and shuttered against the cold, and so it is also dark, and the sexual element is represented here by the worm:

The largest category of Dickinson's love poems presents the suffering and frustration love can cause, and these are poems that derive from the poet's own unhappy experience and are thus intimately related to her deepest and most private feelings. The resulting longing is expressed more tightly in "If you were coming in the Fall," a poem in which in each of the first four stanzas, the poet considers larger periods of time and argues that her sense of emptiness would be bearable if reunion could be achieved after any one of them:

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