“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed”-Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was a famous poem writer who is best known for her dark, suspicious poems. Her family discovered about 1800 poems and were published right after her death. Emily Dickinson used personification and formal diction in some of her poems in order for her poems to have imagery and formal diction. Emily Dickinson, in the poems “The Moon” and “Dear March”, uses personification in order to create a human quality visual imagery. “The Moon” has personification which connects readers to a visual imagery. An example of a personification was “And now she turns her perfect face” she was referring to the moon turning to a perfect face. Dickinson was expressing the
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First example of formal words that were used “Gale ,Abash, Perches”. This words aren’t really the words I would currently use in my daily life and I don't think other people may use them so Emily Dickinson used this words to make the poem seem harder to understand. Even though the words were used in the cheerfully tone part of the poem some of this words could've mean something negative as in “Abash” -cause to feel ashamed, embarrassment. Dickinson not only used formal diction in “Hope”, but also in “The Moon” in order to teach readers professional words that seem hard. Second formal words choice that were used as in” beryl, bestow, dimities”. The tone of this poem was passionate it was positive and in order to make the poem seem harder she used words that are not really used in daily life but the words meanings are positive. “Bestow”- an honor or grant. Overall, Emily Dickinson used formal diction to make the poem seem harder by the word choice she used but the words having a positive meaning. Dickinson used personification and formal diction to make poems seem harder by picking the right word choice and having human quality illusion imagery. Emily Dickinson used hard words that I, personally didn't know what the words actually meant and I think that's good because
First example of formal words that were used “Gale ,Abash, Perches”. This words aren’t really the words I would currently use in my daily life and I don't think other people may use them so Emily Dickinson used this words to make the poem seem harder to understand. Even though the words were used in the cheerfully tone part of the poem some of this words could've mean something negative as in “Abash” -cause to feel ashamed, embarrassment. Dickinson not only used formal diction in “Hope”, but also in “The Moon” in order to teach readers professional words that seem hard. Second formal words choice that were used as in” beryl, bestow, dimities”. The tone of this poem was passionate it was positive and in order to make the poem seem harder she used words that are not really used in daily life but the words meanings are positive. “Bestow”- an honor or grant. Overall, Emily Dickinson used formal diction to make the poem seem harder by the word choice she used but the words having a positive meaning. Dickinson used personification and formal diction to make poems seem harder by picking the right word choice and having human quality illusion imagery. Emily Dickinson used hard words that I, personally didn't know what the words actually meant and I think that's good because