Poetry is written words which express meaning and bring life to those words. Emily Dickinson is simply stating that poetry is something the reader has to feel, without any feeling for the issue at hand, one can not truly understand poetry. If you do not have similar emotions as the writer, you can not understand what message the writer is trying to convey to you. Through the complicated twists of literal and figurative meanings a …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

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