My favourite poet shared her first name with her mother. However, she was very distant with her. Later on in her life, she disowned her mother, saying that she never had one at all. The girl in this tragic tale is none other than Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson first began composing poems in 1850. Her first poem ran like this:
Awake ye muses nine,
Sing me a strain divine,
Unwind the solemn twine,
And tie my Valentine!
Frankly, I have no idea what the means. I think she was trying to court someone. Anyway, "The style of her first efforts was fairly conventional...". That's conventional in the 1800s for you.
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Emily Dickinson's poems are more difficult to understand, because of the language but she does write beautifully, do examine and analyse her poems further! :)
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