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Dickinson aims to communicate with a spirit that harbours a need to preserve a link with Nature, and to communicate with it where communication with spiritual Nature means the realization of man’s being, or what is called self-fulfillment. Some critics assume that Wordsworth’s world is mortal. It consists only of mortal objects like earth, pebbles, rocks, flowers, trees, etc. Yet, this is untrue. His world consists of both mortal and immortal beings. However, both groups are separated from his own being. He sees them and writes about them, as an outsider. He does not belong to the same area. Eco-poets, on the other hand, concentrate on living Nature only, not non-living. For according to Vitalism, we are part of the living existence, and man’s existence is never completed unless integrated with other living creatures. As an eco-poet, Emily Dickinson’s interest in Nature shows precisely in her imagery, which obviously has eco-critical implications. The real key to understand her attitude merely sounds in “Vitalism”, which is a philosophy that emerged in the nineteenth century as a reaction away from Kantian idealism and scientific materialism. An early believer in vitalism, Wilhelm Bilthey, was a philosopher who rejected both idealism and materialism. However, the real experiment of Vitalism was the philosopher Henri Bergson. An overarching view of living nature will be found in Dickinson’s specific imagery both early and late. The landscape- trees, air, sky, clouds …- is a living area where all the elements are alive and capable of inspiring the poet. Dickinson is inspired by the vividness of Nature. Such vividness raises energy in all the surroundings. A lot of images prove that Dickinson believed Nature is alive. Nature grows, moves, and by the end it dies. That belief is clearly conveyed in the contrastive images of light and darkness, movement and settlement, birth and death that Dickinson uses. A portrait of a natural life cycle is usually well-painted in Dickinson’s poetry, starting from birth of Nature, up to its honorable death.
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