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Dickinson found irony, ambiguity, and paradox in most of her normal everyday life and experiences. She seems to write
using conventional materials in her poetry. Her poems are filled with fauna, flora, light, things around the house and odd
jobs. These materials represent the narrow range of what she could experience in and around her father's house.
Dickinson almost never traveled, she was a recluse. Staying inside her father's house, she had to figure out a way to
find those objects or duties entertaining. Dickinson did not just write her poems to write, she wrote them like a nineteenth-century
verse. She takes much liberty in her rhymes.
Dickinson's work was not understood at first because of her use of reverse phrases. Editors added conjunctions, prepositions,
and articles to her poems, no understanding why they had been written in such a way that it was difficult to understand. Dickinson's
numerous dashes were used to emphasize and indicate a missing word which made the poems hard to understand on paper, but after
reading aloud her poetry, it could be understood.
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