Emily Dickinson: Discussion Response It Never Ceases Peer Reviewed Journal

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Emily Dickinson: Discussion Response

It never ceases to amaze me how few of Emily Dickinson's poems were read during the author's lifetime and how she persevered in writing them for so long, staying true to her spare style of writing. Many years later, modernist writers would use many of Dickinson's hallmarks as a writer, such as her fragmented prose, her innovative use of grammar, and her elliptical meanings. I do not think it was Dickinson's subject choice that made her so controversial. Many of the topics of her poems revolve around everyday household observations, death, and romance. Rather it was the way she addressed those subjects that made her readers pause, and made the few people to whom she did show her work inclined to underestimate it.

This focus upon mundane details is seen in her poem which begins "I tie my Hat -- I crease my Shawl -- / Life's little duties do -- precisely -- / As the very least Were infinite -- to me -- " Dickinson radically asserted that duties traditionally confined to a women's sphere could be worthy of poetic significance.

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