Emily Brontë and Will

The essay explores certain poems by Emily Brontë, treating them rather as a canon within her poetry, wherein she asserts the power of will over external circumstance and offers a tentative conception of individual will that precedes and succeeds the universe itself. This discussion asserts that these are exceptional poems deserving greater recognition than they have had thus far. Will is especially associated in these poems with the power of imagination. Language is seen, as in Nietzsche, as a power to shape and control reality.