Emily Dickinson's Accomplishments

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Emily Dickinson lacked of having a social life, but this aspect made her poetry unique. She most likely kept to herself in her room, and kept communication small with her family. If it were not for her not having a social life, her poetry would not be the same. I think that herself being alone inspired how her poetry is, different. Her poems express a lot of thought and feeling, which her poems do prove. She has a odd way of wording and capitalizing certain things, but it seems as if she did it for a reason. For example, her poem “ I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” she writes “ As all the Heavens were a Bell”, she capitalizes two words that seems to represent something. It sounds like she’s talking about the heavens making noise out of joy.

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