Death Emily Bronte Research Paper

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If you’ve ever experienced a death of a family member or a friend, it is obvious how harshly that can make a person’s life take a turn for the worse. Emily Bronte lost her mother, two sisters, and aunt during her life and instead of turning her loss into negativity; she used her pain to create something beautiful. While women were not taken seriously during her time, and poems regarding nature were not widely regarded in the Victorian Age; she wrote from the heart when she created her poem “Death”. Therefore, the deaths of Emily Bronte’s family influenced her obsession with death in her poetry and admiration of nature since she lived a more secluded lifestyle after losing her family.
Emily Bronte’s childhood was no normal one. Her mother died of cancer which lead her aunt and father to raise she and her five siblings. …show more content…

The deaths of her sisters and mother most certainly influenced her outlook on life and how death is inevitable, so it’s only natural she would want to write about the pain and maybe even some comfort in death. She has lost so many people in her life, so it makes sense that she would want to write about death as if it’s somewhat positive. Also, after the deaths she became more secluded and reserved in her home without leaving much. People who are recluses tend to be more connected with nature because they don’t have as much human interaction and trust more in nature and animals than mankind. Nature is something very comforting, so it makes sense that she would find comfort in it. Lastly, because her father was a priest she was influenced by religion her whole life and grew up surrounded by it so those themes are very present in her life. Being the daughter of a priest might also give her more strength to write about death because she believes in the afterlife, so death isn’t as scary to her as it would be for someone who isn’t as

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