Some Keep The Sabbath Going To Church Analysis

The relationship between God and the individual is a great unknown and a common theme in poetry. This subject has created many controversies since the beginning of times, by the fact that people think differently. Some people believe in god and that he was the creator of the universe. On the other hand, some people do not believe in god, but believe that the universe expansion started after a huge explosion. In Emily Dickinson’s “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church” and “One Need Not Be a Chamber” the author’s explores her relationship with God, giving examples of personal experiences. Accordingly, the speaker explores peoples’ traditions and how it affects the individual’ choices in life. The fact that Dickinson does not care about how her traditions will
“Some keep the Sabbath going to church. I keep it staying at home” (lines 1-2). On this first sentence, the speaker makes a metaphor by the use of the word “some”, insinuating that people can follow church’s traditions in different ways. Some people follow it very restrictively. However, she does not seem worried about her traditions towards the church when she says “I keep it staying at home. In addition, it is possible to see a connection of this example with Stuart Mill’s work on “Liberty”. “Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about that religious freedom” (Mill 5). Mill’s point in this quote is that the mankind follows religious traditions in a natural way, following what the most of the population do and not what they really want to, like in Dickinson example. When Dickinson says “Some keep the Sabbath going to church. I keep it staying at home” (lines 1-2), she does not follow what other people do. In fact, she is being different than the others people traditions by the fact that she its aware of her liberty to make