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18: The Enigma of Emily Dickinson (Part 1)

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Emily Dickinson's Metaphor

Dickinson will often take a metaphor and frame an entire poem around it, letting the metaphor run its course. Metaphor allows a writer like Dickinson to be incredibly economical with her words,. She can say in one line what would take most people two pages to describe? Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust.

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