Nature as a Metaphor of Life in Dickinson

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Nature as a Metaphor of Life in Dickinson's Apparently With No Surprise           In Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently With No Surprise", the author tells the reader a story of nature acting out its part.  A late frost settles on newly bloomed flowers and kills them while the sun passes on unaffected by this event.  Dickinson uses this example of nature as a metaphor of life.  Just as nature must do what nature does without regard to the outcome, so must God let life go on without interruption or favouritism.  The forces of nature were set in motion long ago, and God does not change those things.  Similarly, man was given his agency, of choice, long ago, and God also
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will not change that; man must undergo whatever circumstances his choice brings about.   The flower, a symbol of frail beauty, like man, should know that the possibility of a late frost is there. That is why, "Apparently with no surprise" (337), the flower is Beheaded" (337) by the "Frost" (337).  The Frost has nothing against the flower. It is simply being what it is, frost. Flowers die when exposed to frost, just as a part of man dies when an accident occurs or something unplanned arises.  Man should not be angry with the event or that the event was a ...

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