American Literature
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
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 "
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