Emily's+Writings

Emily Dickinson was considered one of the most original 19th century poets. Emily is noted for her unconventional broken rhyming meter and using dashes and random capitalization as well as her creative use of metaphor and overall innovative style. She wrote over 400 poems and most of them were deeply personal about her life and they reflect her loneliness. She admired John Keats and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but avoided the florid and romantic style of her time, creating poems of pure and concise imagery at times witty and sardonic. Emily's family published three books of poetry after her death.

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