Emily Dickinson Parallelism

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Emily Dickinson explicits the poem about her inner thought in a song-like tone. She creates the poem as if the readers are the psychologist and she is the patient. Dickinson uses parallelism, "It was not," for three times. She does not know what "It" is. The speaker does not know what is mentally oppressing her but she does know "It" is not death, darkness, coldness. This abstract "It" bothers her so much that the "It" leads to creating this poem in order to interpret her own thought that has been tormenting her. Her internal conflict is so impactful that she thinks about her own death when she sees someone else's funeral. She puts herself in the shoes of dead person who is in coffin and thinks "When everything that ticked - has stopped."

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