Emily Dickinson

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The writer of this paper examines the unique writing style of Emily Dickinson by quoting many excerpts from her poetry. Poems analyzed include "Success is Counted Sweetest", "The Difference Between Despair" and "I Never Lost as Much but Twice." The writer shows how Dickinson writes about true emotions and harsh realities.

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"Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest poets, is known for the musical simplicity and taut, unrelieved expression of emotional truth in poems that are stark, austere, compact and often small even though her body of work is immense. Many of her poems probe the source of spiritual despair and find within it a restorative, if stubborn, faith. In the poem, "I Never lost as much but twice" she stands before God and addresses Him as an individual who has lost everything, and "stood a beggar/Before the door of God!" And yet, apparently, it was God who brought her both happiness and sorrow, fulfillment and loss: his "Angels twice descending/Reimbursed my store", and yet she is lost again. With a certain ironic and rebellious humor that is one of Dickinson's stylistic hallmarks, she addresses God as both "Burglar! Banker!" He is the source of her wealth and her bankruptcy. Now she comes to Him asking for spiritual renewal and replenishment for, "I am poor once more!""

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