From Blank to Blank Analysis

While this poem might seem kind of random at first glance, it's strictly structured meter-wise. For starters, the whole thing is iambic, meaning that each line is made up of a series of stressed an...

Our speaker isn't doing so well. Okay, so that was a serious understatement. Our speaker is about as bad off as it gets. She sounds downright suicidal. (And we're just going with "she" here since t...

Really, the best way to describe the setting is this:You get where we're coming from? No? Look again:The setting is nothingness. There's very little imagery in the poem to give us any sense of plac...

Dickinson doesn't go too crazy with the sound games in this one, but she still plays a few. In the first stanza, for example, we get a bit of consonance with the repetition of the K sound in words...

You're out of luck. This—like every Dickinson poem—is totally title-free. Instead, we're left to go with the first line, "From Blank to Blank—," which we'd say does a pretty bang-up job summa...

One glance at this, and you know it's an Emily Dickinson poem. Just like always, we've got her use of creative capitalization. Here, she uses it to emphasize certain words and images: "From Blank t...

This one's dense and just a wee bit cryptic, but don't worry. With us as your guide, you won't be losing the forest for the trees.

Dickinson had a little sis' named Lavinia, who also spent most of her time alone. (Man, what's wrong with this family?) (Source.)There's a rumor floating around that Emily mostly wore white. (Sourc...

Yeah, it's kind of hard to have sex when you're alone in a void.

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