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The speaker in Dickinson's poem, "I'll tell you how the Sun rose," dramatizes what she knows about the sunrise but then hazards only a dramatic guess about sunset.

Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her poem "'Twas just this time, last year, I died" looks beyond the death of the speaker.

The speaker in Emily Dickinson's "A Light exists in Spring" is striving to portray a certain kind of light that "exists [only] in Spring" or very near spring.

Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" dramatizes the speaker's act of dying, as well as Dickinson's mystical vision, which corresponds to yogic philosophy.

The speaker in Emily Dickinson's short winter poem slyly humbles the cold season but not before distinguishing its multitude of genuine positive attributes.

The former poet laureate dramatizes the incest taboo in her poem "The Pond," which portrays a birdwing covering a pond and a disembodied spirit that stings her memory.

This poem is one of Dickinson's many fun poems loaded with clever plays on words, making a keen observation that serves to remind the reader of images stored in memory.

The speaker of Emily Dickinson's mystic poem offers a refreshing look at the soul's journey from the astral plane to the physical plane. It also alludes to reincarnation.

Emily Dickinson famously lived a reclusive life, and she cherished her privacy. She often dramatizes in poems the great joy this solitude afforded her.

Dickinson's American sonnet reveals an attitude dramatized in the Shakespeare sonnets: the poet's confidence in her creation of a world of beauty that will last forever.

The speaker's tribute to this father and grandfather who labored hard for a living dramatizes the differences between the speaker's labor and theirs.

Every field of study has its scholars, critics, and commentarians, who employ terminological tools appropriate to their unique purposes. So it is with poetry commentary.

The omniscient speaker metaphorically compares a thirsty traveler to a spiritual seeker on the path to God-realization.

The poem "I taste a liquor never brewed" portrays the speaker's spiritual intoxication through an extended metaphor likening her soul drunkenness to alcohol inebriation.

Emily Dickinson's winter poem, "Like Brooms of Steel," dramatizes the cold stillness of the season for the always-observant poet who saw "New Englandly."

The important American poet, Vince Gotera, edits the oldest literary review in the United States; Thomas Jefferson was a subscriber!