
Emily Dickinson
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Emily Dickinson's the Hour of Lead
Emily Dickinson likes describing abstract ideas in a physical way. The nerves and the heart were personified in that first stanza she likes to keep it fairly concrete even though she's talking about quite difficult emotional psychological things. This is how you live as if you were of lead we've already had the wooden wider quartz contentment like stone you've become inanimate in order to cope remembered if outlived so if you get through it you will remember it and it will be remembered.
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