Emily Dickinson

Jenny Maguire English - The Americas Poetry Essay 3/5/2002 Emily Dickinson Renowned as one of the most significant poets in American literature, Emily Dickinson adds a completely distinctive dimension to Modernist poetry. Her lyrical appeal can be attributed to her aphoristic and abrupt style. Each and every phrase of her poems constitutes a direct representation of her unique personality or mood. This expression is developed through the short measure structure within all of her poems, in …showed first 75 words of 999 total…

…showed last 75 words of 999 total…so that the second and fourth lines rhyme. In this last stanza, however, the "B" lines do not rhyme: "Rooms" and "Names." This unsettling ending to a poem is therefore expressed within the sound the poem as it is read aloud as well. This blurring of form also occurs sometimes with the iambic tetrameter/trimeter of the poem. Hence, the form and structure of these poem affects its interpretation and understanding of death and immortality.