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Emily Dickinson And Nancy Henry

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Intro Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous American poets of all time. she has written approximately 1800 poems most of which were released to the public after her death in 1886. Nancy Henry is a lesser known American poet who has much fewer works. Dickinson’s and Henry’s writing styles vary greatly, through both their language and the way they structure their poems, however, their poems “I am nobody who are you” and “People Who Take Care” have similar themes. Conclusion Overall, the two poems are structurally very different but have coinciding themes. Dickinson writes shorter traditional poems with hidden meanings and uses lots of punctuation to put emphasis on specific words. Henry writes longer, straightforward, free verse poems.
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