Eloquent, Clear, Sophisticated, Neutral
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North American (General)Transcript
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Emily Dickinson loved words ardently. Her feeling about them amounted to veneration, and her selection of them was ritualistic. In one poem, she states a word that breathes distinctly has not the power to die as artist. She conceived of brevity not as a way to sketch in miniature but as a means of achieving the single moment of intensity. Dickinson knew she could not pierce through to the unknowable, but she insisted on asking the questions.