Hi Kaika,

When ever I read your posts I imagine this much older person typing than a 17 year old .
Emily is one of my favorites

I'm drawn to the poets who are real wordsmiths , She knows her craft. Shes gifted . So sad her poems were not published untill 4 years after her death..

I don't know very much about her . I did read this poem last week and knew imediately she may have tried to take her life twice.
Oh to have her heart eyes and mind .

My life closed twice before its close [cc]

• MY life closed twice before its close-- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
  Emily Dickinson (1880's-)

the best one can do is point out the richness , the craft womanship. she possesed. Hopefully your professor will focus on that .

What a gift and reward it is to enter into another' s rhyme and reason.

I see a scholar in a boat in your near future . oOoOooooH....

Patricia