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In Emily Dickinson's Bedroom, By Lloyd Schwartz

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In his free verse poem “In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom,” Lloyd Schwartz details how the mysterious bedroom of Emily Dickinson creates an atmosphere of eeriness in and around her life. First, Schwartz employs juxtaposition when he mentions that the empty bedroom is filled with “a chilly light” to reveal that there is an eerie presence in the room; second, Schwartz uses descriptive details to explain that the strange feeling in the bedroom affects the environment beyond Dickinson’s room as he states, “its immaterial lingering infests both the air inside and what we see of the grass outside”; third, Schwartz uses visual imagery to allow the audience to picture the strangeness of Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, by mentioning the “bricked-up chimney and
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