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Originally Posted by Danielle Salas
Who doesn't love Dickinson? She is master of the short poem:
I died for beauty but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names
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--Am I the only person who struggles to get on with Dickinson?
It's not so much what she says but the way she says it.
Her rhymes are often terrible.