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Emily Dickinson
Every great poet writes in a voice that is unmistakably his or hers. When we hear the high, tragic diction of Homer or Yeats, or the urgent but colloquial voice of Dante, who speaks to us in The Inferno as if we saw him on the street just yesterday, or the boisterous, almost overly familiar diction of Walt Whitman, we don't need to know the poet's name to know who it is speaking. Emily Dickson's voice is equally unmistakable. We hear it as if it is coming from the next room. It is a contemporary voice-quiet, contemplative, but also passionate.
