Emily Dickinson

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1978

Format: 16mm

Description: We meet Emily Dickinson in her garden, a place from which she ventured no farther for the last 20 years of her life. As she recalls her years, we can begin to understand the essence of her life, her spirit, and her poems. Poems that are unlike any others in the English language, for to compare her is to limit her. The freshness and daring of her imagery, the irregularities, the half rhythms, the broken sentences are a necessary constituent of her poetry. Emily Dickinson, the daughter of a tyrannical father, the recluse, the distillation of the puritan spirit, had asked that her collection of poems be burned upon her death. Fortunately for the world, her request was not followed.

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