Faith and Confidence in Emily Bronte's Poem "No Coward Soul is Mine" Mousrisha Roy College

"No Coward Soul is Mine" portrays Emily Bronte's spiritual faith. The world is a sphere troubled by storms. Here storms metaphorically stand for the adversities of life. The persona says her soul is courageous enough to march bravely through those storms. It does not tremble in fear of the possible dangers. This courage is rooted in her conviction in the existence of a benevolent God, which makes her see in her vision the glorious heaven shining brightly. Her faith is so strong that it also shines as brightly as heaven. This faith protects her soul from all fears. Bronte uses anaphora in the first two lines, both of them starting with “No”, which emphasizes the strong negation of her soul's having any cowardice. This strong negation is in contrast to the positivity of the strong faith of her soul which she expresses in the next lines.

The poet persona addresses God as the omnipotent, omnipresent Deity whom she can find within her own heart. The life which exists in her body in the form of her life is in reality only a small manifestation of the eternal life of the supreme creator, and it is from that creator, i.e., from God, that her own individual life derives its power. Whereas in line three “life” refers to her individual...