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EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886).
Emily Dickinson was a lonely woman and a poet. Her poems show herself as an omniscient lover, whose work on earth is to present that particular dimension of life which can only be understood by lonely women. (Will there really be a morning?)
The American Spirit of the XIXth century still owns a certain sense of harshness and wilderness, even if life has considerably softened, as the Irish spirit of the XXth century will keep in mind the sense of Loss. This spiritual background fills the love and poems of Emily Dickinson. She weaves invisible poetical links, like spiders spin their web, linking all poems and feelings together : morning and angels and graves, love and loss and nature. (Angels,in the early morning.)
The way in which she presents life may have constituted a prefiguration of existentialism, in its dreamlike aspect : the impossible childhood, leading men to live their own impossible life.
(We do not play on the graves.)
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