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MARTIN,'30 FACULTY COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION Professor Robinson Professor Sherman Professor Waite Miss Thompson .~ _1,_ V""I~~""" RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Vol. II Providence, R I., April, 1930 No. 4 Emily Dickinson HE life of Emily Dickinson is affection developed, almost ideal in its Tsingularly uneventful. One bi, enduring and changeless love. It was ographer quite tersely expresses it in "'Sister Sue" who encouraged Emily to these words: write, who treasured every precious Emily Dickinson: Born-Amherst, verse scribbled on bits of paper, and Massachusetts, 1830. it is through her efforts that the ex­ Lived-Amherst. quisite poetry of Emily Dickinson has Died-Amherst, 1886. been made known to the world. That is practically her whole life About this time, Emily made the history. The calm, intellectual at, one momentous journey of her life­ mosphere of the college town of Am­ she accompanied her father to Wash ­ herst exerted its charming influence ington where Mr. Dickinson was to upon her entire life. Here she spent take his seat in Congress. It was then her carefree, merry youth, thoroughly that Emily experienced the one great enjoying all the pastimes in which the love of her whole existence-the love decorous young men and maids of al­ that time and other interests could most a century ago indulged. We are never efface. Her Puritan upbring-­ told that she attended Mount Holy, ing would not allow her to yield. She oke Seminary, the unique purpose of fled home to Amherst and the tender this institution being to prepare young solace of her understanding Sister Sue. ladies to become wives of foreign mis­ From then on we notice a marked sionaries. Thus our Emily grew up, change in her life. She gradually sep­ and in spite of her training, became arated herself from the world, living quite a belle of Amherst. She was the life of a recluse, almost as retired loved for her sweetness and her wit as a nun in a cloister. A few old and noted for her sparkling eyes, au, friends kept in touch with her, but burn hair, and pleasing appearance. she mingled no longer with the social When she was about sixteen, her group of Amherst. Sue was her un, brother married and brought -his de, failing comfort, and Emily was the lightfu l, merry wife to live '"just beloved playmate of Sue's children. So through the hedge" from Emily's it was until the end of her life. She home. Between the two girls a deep shielded herself from social contact 83 ◄I:::::::::::::::::::::::::::~ T H E A N C H O R~ ·· ~---------------~- ► ~ 7& and seemed to live in a world of her Recently, a new volume of Emily own where, perhaps, she lived again Dickinson's work has been published. in memory those never-to-be,forgotten It is entitled "Further Poems of Emily days in Washington. Dickinson,,, and we are told that those The poetry of Emily Dickinson fills poems were withheld from publica­ one volume, but each single short tion by her sister, Lavinia. Perhaps poem is precious. She writes of birds, Lavinia's Puritan conscience was and flowers, and trees as one who startled by bits of Emily's seeming ir­ loved and felt very close to Nature. reverence or by the fervor of her love She possesses the true gift of music, poems, for although Lavinia loved her for we find her poems brimming over sister dearly and shielded her with un­ with the song of the joys of life. Then faltering devotion, she never quite un­ again she gives us a glimpse of the su, derstood her. pernatural, for her sensitive nature These new poems merely supple­ was deeply spiritual in a way that is ment the older volume, for Emily's difficult to understand. She wrote of own spirit permeates them all with solemn things of life and religion with their haunting loveliness and alluring a flippancy that is completely unortho, charm. She who sings of butterflies dox and which would be almost sac, and birds is quite herself when deal, religious had anyone but Emily Dick­ ing with the mysteries of death or in, inson written it. Then we have a finity. She naively informs us that group of tender love poems through she doesn't like Paradise and yet many which we learn how deeply the author of her poems deal with her ideas of was affected by her early love. Many immortality and heaven. But, then­ qualities of Emily herself appear in that is her prerogative. her poetry: we find her pathetic and At times her meaning appears rath, gay; serious one moment and slyly er obscure-it is almost impossible to laughing at humanity the next; phil, interpret her. Perhaps that is because osophical and quaintly humorous in we seek too deeply for an explana, the most unexpected places. But why tion or because her realm of thought should we attempt to expound the lies too far beyond our powers of con, mysteries of Emily Dickinson? She is ception. At any rate, we shall not beyond the realm of explanation. Her charm is just as appealing and in, act unwisely if we accept her as she is and have faith in her own statement tangible as her own conception of that "Too much of proof affronts be, beauty. lief." .. Beauty is not caused-it is. Chase it and it ceases. "Further Poems of Emily Dickin, Chase it not and it abides. son," edited by her niece, Martha Overtake the creases Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete In the meadow when Hampson. Published by Little, The wind Brown, and Company, Boston, 1929. Runs his fingers through it? CATHERINE MARTIN, '32 Deity will see to it That you never do it.,, Necessity of Ed ucat ion for a Higher Civilization ROBERT M. B ROWN Professor of Geology and Economic Geography NY revolu tionary change in the tios or they become dangerous. They A nature of the government of a must be also rather evenly distributed people demands such readjustments among the members of the society and that panic and disorder are almost in, not the attainments of a few. Greece, evitable. Only where education is for instance, is generally accredited universal or where the level of intel, with a high form of civilization in the ligence is high can such a change be days of the philosophers and sculptors made without extensive disturbances. and later groups have looked up to T he assumption of a democratic form her as an example, but in reality her of government by a state with long civilization was an autocracy. The traditions of autocracy is a revolution. matter becomes somewhat clarified if The United States and Germany ac, we consider the attainments of the en, complished this change without se, tire group as opposed to the idea of rious internal dissensions. Where the special accomplishments of a privi, average intelligence is low or where leged few. The Greek civilization, as there is a vast gulf between the edu, it is ordinarily conceived, was not the cation of the aristocracy and that of collective attainments of the entire the common people, the change can , group of Greeks but the attainments not be made so easily . Thus Mexico, of a selected portion of the group. Soviet Russia, and China are in th e The privileged class numbered but a throes of change but so great is the small percentage of the total, and the illiteracy in these countries and so de, contribution of these to the world's pendent are they upon leadership that store of attainments was enormous. the democratic form of government in There was, however, in addition a Mexico and Soviet Russia is in real, large percentage of underlings who ity not far removed from autocracy, were not only nonproductive but an while in China the strife for the die, actual drag. The accumulated achieve, tatorship goes on intermittently. ments of the Greek civilization, enor, There is no hope for a true democrat, mous as they were, placed upon a per ic form of government in these lands capita basis might and probably would until the masses of people become ed, be less than that of many of our pres, ucated and thereby capable of acting ent states.