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Amy StephensAmy StephensProfessor OwensProfessor Owens
ENG-1102ENG-11025 December 20105 December 2010
Emily Dickinson
She was a very strange person, but her works
are what made her famous. She isolated herself from the world and mostly
wrote about her loneliness.
Emily Dickinson’s poetry was extremely unique
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She used slant rhyme in most of her work. By using slant rhyme, she was able to add
interest and tension to her poems. Dickinson also put her punctuation and
capitalization in odd places making the poetry more interesting to read.
Emily Dickinson used a very experimental use of rhythm, rhyme,
and punctuation in her poetry.
For example, in “Because I could not stop for
Death,” she shows many specific ways in which Death resembles a person.
Dickinson often used personification in her works
Dickinson used imagery to help paint a picture
of the story she was telling in some of the poems she wrote.
Emily Dickinson occasionally used imagery in her works
Most of Dickinson’s poems reflect her
loneliness from shutting herself out from the world.
She believed that nature was her teacher, and she learned everything about life from it.
Even though she shut herself away from the world, she still did not want people to judge her because of it.
Common Themes in Dickinson’s works
Dickinson said her poems were her letters to
the world and she wanted to show what nature had taught her.
As she shared her thoughts to the world, she did not want people to think bad of her because of her decisions.
She mostly enclosed her poems in letters to friends and family.
Another theme of Dickinson’s poems was the message behind
them
She is one of the most unique poets from the
early 1800s. Her lifestyle and way of thinking were very
interesting to learn about. Her works matched her lifestyle perfectly
because her way of writing was also very strange.
Studying the life of Emily Dickinson is extremely
beneficial
It is not always the best thing to conform to
the world’s ways. Dickinson’s writings have left many readers
thinking to not always listen to the world and it’s ways, but to shut it away and make decisions by one’s self.
Learning about Dickinson’s oneness with nature can teach a
very valuable lesson
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