Showing posts with label Michelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle. Show all posts

Monday, February 21, 2011

Why hello there!

In Emily Dickinson's This is my Letter to the World, Dickinson portrays a desire for acceptance and connection. The physical and natural world created provides a sanction for the persona to belong. Dickinson's connection to Nature can be seen through her emphasis of Nature with the use of capitalisation in, "The simple news that Nature told."

When Dickinson writes, "that never (the world) wrote to me,--" a caesura is used to disrupt the general flow of the poem which shows her detachment from society and her awareness of her isolation.

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