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"Because I could not stop for Death"

Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest American poets of the 1800s. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. While alive, she published only eleven of her nearly 2,000 poems. An accurate and complete edition of her poems appeared in 1955. Dickinson’s fame and influence grew rapidly after the release of the book.
Dickinson most often used iambic tetrameter and off-rhymes in her writing. In her earlier works, Dickinson used conventional poetic techniques. Later she arranged and broke lines of verse in very unusual ways to emphasize meaning. She used common, everyday language in new and astonishing ways. Dickinson’s poetic lines were shortened by the use of metaphors and wide use of ellipsis, or omitting words understood to be there. Her poems were “simply constructed yet intensely felt.” She wrote about issues essential to life: the joys and sorrows of love, God and religious beliefs, nature, immorality, the horrors of war, and the unfathomable nature of d...

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