The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the ecological traits of Emily Dickinson's nature poetry, and to show that her creative mind in the nature poems is activated through her ecological imagination. In most of her nature poems she draws the picture of diverse natural things, and her imagination moves to recognize their diversity, equality, and spontaneity. The humanistic view of nature has long been so reason-oriented that it is considered as having the hierarchial order in it and its diversity is overlooked by man. Dickinson refutes the established view of nature, and her ecological imagination in her nature poems starts to praise the diversity of nature and leads to the recognition of the “circumferential” beings in the natural world. In the process, she also finds the equality of all existences residing in nature, including man who has considered it as the object to be conquered, and, furthermore, cherishes the spontaneity of nature in which all natural beings are in the state of self-sufficiency. In that respect, her ecological imagination can be qualified as a return to the circumferential beings.

The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the ecological traits of Emily Dickinson's nature poetry, and to show that her creative mind in the nature poems is activated through her ecological imagination. In most of her nature poems she draws the picture of diverse natural things, and her imagination moves to recognize their diversity, equality, and spontaneity. The humanistic view of nature has long been so reason-oriented that it is considered as having the hierarchial order in it and its diversity is overlooked by man. Dickinson refutes the established view of nature, and her ecological imagination in her nature poems starts to praise the diversity of nature and leads to the recognition of the “circumferential” beings in the natural world. In the process, she also finds the equality of all existences residing in nature, including man who has considered it as the object to be conquered, and, furthermore, cherishes the spontaneity of nature in which all natural beings are in the state of self-sufficiency. In that respect, her ecological imagination can be qualified as a return to the circumferential beings.

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