Some Keep The Sabbath Going To Church Comparison

People from around the world have continuously immigrated to America in search of the American Dream. They have left their families and friends in search of a better life and for freedom from oppression. There are two different versions of The American Dream that people have flocked to America to achieve. The first is a vision of America as the land of capitalistic opportunity and material success. The other dream sees America as a place of spiritual self-realization. Benjamin Franklin’s "The Autobiography,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s "Self-Reliance,” and Emily Dickinson’s "Some Keep the Sabbath going to Church” each exemplify different versions of the American Dream. To begin, in Franklin’s “The Autobiography,” he explains his life and America

Dickinson uses many different metaphors of nature, and she compares the many parts natures to the parts of a church to further the separation from the church and the spiritual self-realization. Dickinson encourages people to look in nature to find God, because God can be found through nature. Dickinson uses "an Orchard" to represent the body of the church and "a Bobolink" to represent the choir. “The Orchard” and "a Bobolink" are used to portray that a person only needs natures surroundings to be in the presence of the Lord (Lewerenz). Dickinson's use of metaphor in this poem compares the traditional ways of religion and the church with a different perspective (Lewerenz). Moreover, Dickinson’s “Some Keep the Sabbath going to Church,” focuses on “how joyful and fulfilling it is to worship God in one's chosen way” (Lewerenz). This poem also promotes individualism away from the church. Dickinson introduces the thought of worshipping outside of the church and being with nature instead. Although each literary work’s main objective is to promote individualism, they each use different methods and literary elements to define