An overview of Emily Dickinson's poetic style. Information taken from Gale articles and web sources. Email me for the works Cited page if you're interested.

9. Other Literary Devices Common to Dickinson Personification Apostrophe Alliteration Assonance Consonance Repetition Slant Rhyme Onomatopoeia

15. Pain And Suffering : Emily displays an obsession with pain and suffering; there is an eagerness in her to examine pain, to measure it, to calculate it, to intellectualize it as fully as possible. Her last stanzas become a catalog of grief and its causes: death, want, cold, despair, exile. In #241, Emily says "I like a look of Agony." Examples # 252, 258, 650. Death : Many readers have been intrigued by Dickinson's ability to probe the fact of human death. She often adopts the pose of having already died before she writes her lyric - #712 and 465. She can look straight at approaching death - # 1100 and 547. Other examples # 49, 182, 1078, 1624, 1732

16. A Copy of one of Dickinson’s poems in her own handwriting