Emily Dickinson

Jenny Maguire English - The Americas Poetry Essay 3/5/2002 Emily Dickinson Renowned as one of the most significant poets in American literature, Emily Dickinson adds a completely distinctive dimension to Modernist poetry. Her lyrical appeal can be attributed to her aphoristic and abrupt style. Each and every phrase of her poems constitutes a direct representation of her unique personality or mood. This expression is developed through the short measure structure within all of her poems, in …

…so that the second and fourth lines rhyme. In this last stanza, however, the "B" lines do not rhyme: "Rooms" and "Names." This unsettling ending to a poem is therefore expressed within the sound the poem as it is read aloud as well. This blurring of form also occurs sometimes with the iambic tetrameter/trimeter of the poem. Hence, the form and structure of these poem affects its interpretation and understanding of death and immortality.