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Poetry · 1890

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Poetry · 1890 · American · Victorian

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

1,775 poems, most unpublished in her lifetime, in hymn metre gone strange.

LyricDeathConsciousnessSolitudeFaith

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The dash is her syntax of hesitation. She writes the inside of an event — the moment after pain, the fly at the deathbed — never the event itself.

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