Emily Dickinson (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

The only injury to american poetry is by that imbecile Lawrence Beck.

@SamIam you threw out the illiterate nitwit so I'm not going to be too worried about being insulting. The dashes were hers, there are very good fascimiles of her handwritten poems available. They are considered to be a device used to fracture the language by many, or as an idiosyncracy by others... like perhaps when she was trying to think of the next word she would make a dash. Either way since she did not publish while she was alive the truest any 'illiterate nitwit' transcribing her poems can be is to include everything she wrote, dashes and all. You are not the only one to make ignorant comments about her, but yours was on the top so it got the response.

While I love Emily Dickinson, I'm quite certain she was intelligent enough to know not to punctuate her poetry with dashes. What illiterate nitwit transcribed this stuff?

Then, Lawrence, you insensitive imbecile, don't read it.

Emily Dickinson was insane. Her 'poetry' is incoherent babble. Generations of gullible readers, mistaking incoherence for profundity, have celebrated dear Emily, and emulated her. In doing so, they have gravely injured American poetry.

I love her Originality.. ;) Her dashes and capitalization are great!

She is like a vestal virgin with devotional ties to her poetry.

Poets can learn a great deal from Miss Emily.

First they can learn that using predictable rhymes, they steal one half of the impact of surprise which Miss Emily achieves.

In many on these instances, Miss Emily uses assonance and consonance instead of full male or female rhyme.

No! Miss Emily is not a poet for the simple minded. On the contrary, she puts her own twist to the New England well read citizen of the early 1800's.

She remains a poet of innovation and whould be recognized as such: old pattern breaker, new pattern maker.

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I enjoy her work but there are too many dashes in some and it gets very distracting in my opinion.