INTRODUCTION
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” (Reuben 1). This was the way Emily Dickinson responded when once asked to describe her idea of poetry. This explanation of poetry may explain how she became one of the greatest and most influential poets of American Literature. She did not follow the normal models of poetry which had previously been provided for her by past poets; rather she made up her own rules. Dickinson wrote about 1,775 poems throughout her lifetime, and all but seven were published posthumously. After ded
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