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| Day 16 - Emily Dickinson  | We live in a different century, indeed a wholly different world from Emily Dickinson, and her poems are odd, filled with dashes and hesitations and capitalized nouns and syncopations—yet her singular voice resonates uncannily in many aspects of modern life. She is so strange, yet so on point—the best example we know of the poet's integration of the most particular individuality and the widest universality. | | #249 - "Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!"
Take this brief song, for example—written by a housebound New England Victorian, it echoes with the freedom and exultation of a much later time.
| For further reading: Profile of Emily Dickinson
Her sheltered life, her poems, her muse, her editors...
| Her Rhymes, Her Dashes, Her Flowers, Her Fits?
| The Scientist in Emily Dickinson
| Library: Poems by Emily Dickinson
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