... 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 Fly Buzz-when I Died". Almost all of Dickinson's poems develop more meaning with deeper analysis. Her poems are devoted to ... the reflection of the thoughts and feelings she experienced ... over the course of her lifetime. In the poem "I Heard a ... ...

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