Emily DIckenson
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Emily Dickenson's Poetry
Emily Dickens' lived in a small town, she saw small things, but in her poetry existed huge ideas that launched the eccentric poet into literacy books for all of history. It was in these large ideas, which she captured in the words of her simple life, where she showed her great poetic strength. She used her everyday challenges to "Domesticate the Universe into her own experiences into motions of nature and the world she observed." (Brooks 124) She did this by using her daily insights and metaphors into her mind and her thoughts on the greater world. Dickinson ignored all rules of rhyme and meter, which some would say including Alfred Hebegger, a distinguished biographer, "Broke up monotony", or "Lost the singsong effect"(Hebegger 30) She changed syllables twisted rhymes and gave no regard to punition in her New England set poems. Being from New England Dickinson's poems resembled the laconic patterns of the area and kept her poems seemingly simplistic and right to the point.
In Emily Dickinson's poem "Nature the Gentlest Mother Is", there is a deliberate disregard or meter. The first stanza takes on the 8,6, 8,6 pattern, while the second has the 6,6,7,7. The third has a 7,6,7,6, and the fourth a 7,7,7,7. The fifth stanza has a 6,6,8,6 feel and the final stanza has an 8,6,8,6...