Emily Dickinson 3

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…and intense emotions - they were important as a kind of therapy; a search for answers and clues on paper. They gave strength, and were a way of combating causality. The constant metamorphoses (both of persona and topic) and ambiguities (making it possible to show that nothing is sure and yet everything is possible) in her poems suggests trickery, - evoking bewilderment but provoking questions - with so many ruses and riddles is anything determinable?