Poet of Many Personas Emily Dickinson is a poet of many faces. She often writes through many different personas who are easy to relate to. One of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her emotions in an adage-like tone. Dickinson uses the connotation of the sea and slant rhyme in "Wild Nights-Wild Nights" and irony to dispel a somber tone about God in "I Heard a ... quatrain, and the connotation of "Ah- the Sea!" (9) leaves room for many interpretations. The sea could mean the female body or be imagery for passion and lust. The choice of "Our luxury" (4) is denotation of...

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