Emily Dickinson Blog Post

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Emily Dickinson uses pace and rhythm very effectively in her poems. Her usage of this skill provides deeper meaning to her poems. Two poems that she does this in are "I am Nobody who are you?" and "To make a prairie." In "To make a prairie" the third line in that poem does a great job of slowing down the pace of the poem and forcing the reader to think about. In the beggining of the poem she says "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee." These lines have a good pace to them but the next line is "and revery." Those two words make me stop and think about what she is saying. After that she say "The revery alone will do." In "I am Nobody who are you," Dickinson uses structure to control the pace of the poem. In the second line of the poem, she uses a lot of dashes for pauses in the sentence. "Are you - Nobody - too?" In this sentence we learn a lot of things about this poem. One of the things we learn is that the person writing this is talking to somebody else. Another thing is that they are a nobody who is trying to find a match. The third thing we learn is that the writer is shy because of the breaks in the sentence. These examples show how important pace is in a poem.