In the poem "I like a look of Agony," by Emily Dickinson, one of the ways the poem's affects on the reader is improved is though the use of literary devices. People normally have trepidation of agony, but Dickinson uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, and connotation to reveal her contrasting enjoyment to ... appreciated something that was a known truth. It's intriguing to read such an unconventional view on watching others suffer. Another literary device utilized by Dickinson is personification. In the last two lines, "The Beads upon the Forehead/ By homely Anguish strung....

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Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are both respected women poets in their own rights. Although in different manners, both poets discuss their poetry within their poetry. Bradstreet and Dickinson, as poets, were able to break free of male oppression and literary traditions of the period, to portray their emotions and imagination through their works, expressing their freedom and the ... have in her society, but breaks free of it by using her imagination to guide the way. Since Emily, as the character, is not allowed to dance, she imagines herself doing so, giving her great delight and also e...

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... 's life is worthy of documentation. As a diarist, the writer also becomes a reader, making self-conscious remarks strewn with self-mockery. A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be ... ...

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