Symbolism of Purple in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Abstract

The 19th Century American poet Emily Dickinson was born in a Calvinist (puritan) family in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 and died there in 1886. The use of color is very frequent in her poetry. This is certainly related to her being lived in a rural environment surrounded by beautiful natural scenes; amazing fantastic colors of gardens, flowers, beautiful hills around her. These made her became entrapped by magic of the colorful objects very easily and use them in creating her poetic images connecting the nature around her with her spiritual world. Chase stated, “The use of colors is one of the