At the same time Walt Whitmas was developing one major strand of poetry, that of communal elebration and the use of the long, flowing line, Emily Dickinson was developing the other strand -- eloquent expression of the personal using short lines and caesura,most effectively expressed in her use of the dash. Dickinson's poetry was so intensely private that she published very little in her own lifetime, instead keeping her work to herself and only letting it be discovered after her death.
Because of this, most of Dickinson's poems are known by the first line or by simply a number. Her most famous works include "Wild Nights" and "Because I Could Not Stop For Death."
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Oh Emily D. My first literary crush. How I wanted to sit in your windowsill with you and create elaborate religious metaphors out of the behavior of birds.
:::sigh:::
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