Allusion in I Died for Beauty
Allusion Examples in I Died for Beauty:
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Dickinson’s focus on “truth” and “beauty” recalls the 19th-century English poet John Keats. In Keats’s famous poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Keats meditates on the relationship between beauty and truth—art and human knowledge—and ultimately ends on the note that the two are one in the same. One interpretation of this parallel is that art has the ability to convey aspects of the human experience that science never can. The death of beauty and art would thus mean the death of truth.