... say that Dickinson is unlike any toher poet. "Her compact, forceful language, characteried formally by long disruptive dashes, heavy iambic meters, and angular, imprecise rhymes, is one fo the singular literary achievements of of the nineteenth century. Her aphoristic style, whereby substantial meanings are compressed into very few words, can be daunting, but many of her best and most famous poems ... or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that seems to describe the reader's mind as well as it does the poet's." (http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/dickinson/analysi...

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