American Literature
Dickinson's most psychologically complex poems explore the theme that the loss of hunger for life causes the death of self
and place this at "the interface of murder and suicide". Gospel poems Throughout her life, Dickinson wrote poems reflecting a preoccupation with
the teachings of Jesus Christ and, indeed, many are addressed to him. She stresses the Gospels' contemporary pertinence and recreates them,
often with "wit and American colloquial language".Scholar Dorothy Oberhaus finds that the "salient feature uniting Christian poets ... is their
reverential attention to the life of Jesus Christ" and contends that Dickinson's deep structures place her in the "poetic tradition of Christian devotion"
alongside Hopkins, Eliot and Auden. In a Nativity poem, Dickinson combines lightness and wit to revisit an ancient theme: "The Savior must have
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