... were in the Springfield Republican. The rest of the her works would not be published until after her death. Dickinson's poetry was original and innovative. Dickinson often drew on the Bible, classical mythology, and Shakespeare for allusions and references. Many of her poems were not completed and were written on scraps of paper, such as old grocery lists. Eventually when her ... entire collection of poems and still have almost no sense of the time in which she lived. Although social and historical ideas and values contributed to her work, the ultimate context is herself. It is safe to ...

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