American Literature
alongside Hopkins, Eliot and Auden. In a Nativity poem, Dickinson combines lightness and wit to revisit an ancient theme: "The Savior must have
been / A docile Gentleman / To come so far so cold a Day / For little Fellowmen / The Road to Bethlehem / Since He and I were Boys / Was
leveled, but for that twould be / A rugged billion Miles ". The Undiscovered Continent Academic Suzanne Juhasz considers that Dickinson saw
the mind and spirit as tangible visitable places and that for much of her life she lived within them. Often, this intensely private place is referred to as
the "undiscovered continent" and the "landscape of the spirit" and embellished with nature imagery. At other times, the imagery is darker and
forbidding--castles or prisons, complete with corridors and rooms--to create a dwelling place of "oneself" where one resides with one's other
selves
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