How does Dickinson mock puritan values in her poems?

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Dickinson poetry is a concentrated attack on the customs and rituals of puritan society. With reference to 'the world is not conclusion' and other poems, discuss whether you agree with this statement.

Dickinson poem 'the world is not conclusion' does not reflect a concentrated attack however she does mock puritanism and undermine its values, although she is a religious catholic Christian herself she feels that people do not understand religion like she does and that they are trying understand something which they never will. She conveys in the poem that there is an afterlife and how it undiscovered 's you have to go through it to know, suggests that she has experienced death. mentions themes of puritanism and death in this poem, similar themes are discussed in 'I felt a funeral in my brain' and 'There's a certain slant of light'.

Dickinson starts poem 501 with the lines 'This world is not Conclusion.' this line shows that Dickinson is certain that there is afterlife, this line also shows confidence in the speakers tone suggesting that maybe Dickinson has experienced this to be so certain. This line is paradoxical since since in this line she is suggesting that