Astract: Why Emily Dickinon is regarded as one of the greatest American poets after her death? One of the most important reasons is that she created her own unique verse form which makes a departure from the traditional poetry of her period and it seems she doesn't fit to any particular group but to herself.
Key words: technique, particularity, formality, imagery and figurative language.
Although Emily Dickinson was a poet in the Romantic period, her poems are so informal and personal which makes her poems posses a unique style and artistic charming .the use of short words, capitalization, unusual pause and the techniques of off-rhymes all contribute to the particularity of her poems. Here I'd like to talk a bit about the techniques used in her poetry from two aspects: Formality and language. …
