In “He fumbles at your Soul,” Emily Dickinson uses diction and literary devices to develop the theme that God is brutal and reckless in the act of death.

... Leslie Alvarez Buchanan LA 399 28 January 2002 Thesis statement: In "He fumbles at your Soul," Emily Dickinson uses diction and literary devices to develop the theme that God is brutal and reckless in the act of death. Dickinson uses diction to outline the idea that the act of death is unjust because God uses his superior being to manipulate the defenseless human soul. Dickinson's first instance of diction is, "He stuns you by degrees-"(4). The idea of God stunning by degrees suggests the bringing about of the iciness of death. That God does it with the intention of stunning gives the impression that it comes with a great surprise, reflecting the viciousness of death. In the next line, Dickinson refers to the soul as, "your brittle Nature,"(5) making the spirit a victim weak and helpless against God's power. Brittle gives the impression that the human soul is weak and easily broken, therefore God

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