Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Emily Dickinson's Writing Style
- Colloquial and elevated language
juxtaposed
- Contradictions/Oxymorons
- Synathesia
- Irregularity
- Unpredictable and jarring rythmns
- Inverted language
- Riddle qualities
- Omitted and auxiliary verbs
- Compression/Aphoristic
- Concludes sentences or clauses with
verbs, disrupting the balance of the lines.
- Surprising, subversive use of common
ballad (hymnal quatrain)
- Ambigious speaker
- Unconventional punctuation-dash
- Puzzling Syntax
- Capitalisation of random words
- Use of nouns as verbs
- Perplexing meter
- Adj., verbs and adverbs used as nouns
- Slant rhymes