One of America’s great poets, Emily Dickinson belongs more to the twentieth century (A) ________. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, 1830, Emily remained for her entire life in the town of her birth.

Other than a few infrequent trips to Boston, Washington and Philadelphia (B) ________, she was content to stay at home, finding meaning in the near-at-hand, her family, her friends, and the phenomena of nature. Though her thoughts were expressed in hundreds of poems, she remained basically an unpublished poet during her lifetime, (C) ________ until more than 25 years after her death in 1886.

In her poetry Emily Dickinson accepted the tradition of formal verse but in combinations of rarely more than four lines; she showed a disciplined control of short verse form. Her poetry was brief and to the point and powerful (D) ________. The unusual way she looks at the world coloured all her poetry. Like Walt Whitman she did not use regular rhythms and often neglected the rules of grammar (E) ________. In thought content, Emily Dickinson’s poems are far from simple; they are filled with humour, with lively ideas, and with wit.

Everything about Emily Dickinson’s poetry was original; the thought and the unusual form. In a few lines, with only a few words, (F) ________.