Do you agree with most readers that these eccentricities are actually among the poem’s greatest qualities?
A word often associated with Emily Dickinson is “eccentric”. She loves unconventional capitalization, odd punctuation, arresting images, slant rhymes, inconsistency, and so forth. How does her eccentricity affect your reading of her poems? How does it invite you to engage with her ideas and her themes in a way that a more conventional form would not?
