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Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. . The Dickinson name was synonymous with power and prestige. Emily Dickinson’s uniqueness in poetry makes it very difficult to place her in any single tradition. Her poetry is usually a four-line stanza with ABCB rhyme schemes and the alternations in iambic meter between tetrameter and trimester are derived from Psalms and Protestant hymns. However Emily Dickinson had a unique touch to thoroughly appropriate the forms by punctuating the stanzas with her own long, rhythmic dashes that interrupted the meter to indicate short pauses.
Her subjects were also an extension of her own psyche. She poured out her own feeling in the poetry with great painstaking effort. Her painful honesty never lost touch with the poetic philosophy. Her greatest techniques are to write about her own emotions in a form of universal homiletic or adage. Unlike Wordsworth or Yeats Emily does not takes pains to organize her thoughts and feelings into a coherent, unified worldview, rather her thoughts appear to be recorded in a natural flow over the life of the poet. As her own reflection and creativity to life increased her poems matured more, amazing, gripping, moving and thought-provoking to the reader.
Those who ne’er succeed count SUCCESS sweetest/. Is a poem written on the utter truth that those who have not tasted particular emotions know what exactly the meaning of those motions is? Those who have never tasted success place the highest value on success. To understand the meaning and worth of nectar one must feel "sorest need." The essence of nectar is wetness, which can only be valued and understood by those who have experienced bitterness and soreness. Further the members of the victorious army................
