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Emily Dickinson Poetry Analysis Essay

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If it wasn’t her sister Lavinia for publishing Emily Dickinson poetry. The world would have never known of her text in-which is literacy gold. The majority of Emily Dickinson's poetry are whether hard to comprehend for today’s standards. Upon a closer look into her world, it displays an intellectual mindset and her perspective of the world from her room in Amherst, Massachusetts. Because the work of Dickinson is able to broaden the meaning of the world as we see it. The evidence of her work is plainly written, her stanzas begin a rhyme scheme and alternations of text. It is not always easy to interpret her words but rather to decipher her works of literature to further explore her intellect. Unfolding Emily Dickinson uses varies of rhyme, hymns, and punctuation begins with her approach to writing. …show more content…

For this particular poem 593 Emily starts her eight stanzas with a rhyme and metering which begins with, ‘I think,’ ‘I was,’ ‘enchanted’ (Ln. 1) and ‘I read,’ ‘that,’ ‘Foreign Lady’ (Ln. 3). Emily Dickinson breaks up the traditional feet, “Instead of Iambs, Dickinson may substitute an anapestic foot or a dactullic” (poemshape.wordpress). Surely she was able to create minor changes that would change how to contribute to poetry. Additionally, there is speculation of her dashes being a sort of substitute for a comma or a period. From reading her poems she hardly ever uses periods and perhaps uses the dashes to heavily emphasize on the next set of like sounded words. Certainly, there’s a meaning behind it but isn’t completely known. The dash could possibly be a way of her thought process or psyche as she wrote. Finally, the hymn meter is also biblical in a sense. In poem 593 she says words such as, “Soul” (Ln. 26) and “Divine” (Ln. 26) and in some instances reading out loud it almost feels like a short harmony as the dashes leave the reader a pause before the next set of words that

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